Portinstall question

[Bill Schmitt (SW)]

   Donald J. O'Neill wrote:

On Sunday 24 October 2004 05:44 am, Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote:
  

I think I'm missing something basic, so if someone could point me
to where that is, I would appreciate it. I been installing
software using portinstall, but I think I'm missing something
basic because there seems to be more guesswork involved that I
expected there to be.

How do you know what name to use for the portinstall to work? For
example, I wanted to install MySQL 41. The folders under
/usr/ports/databases include several variations on my-sql. Among
others are mysql323-server, mysql40-server, mysql41-server, and
mysql50-server. In the Makefile for mysql41 it states PORTNAME?=
mysql. But trying "portinstall mysql" or "portinstall mysql41" or
"portinstall mysql41-server" all result in a message that the
port doesn't exist. The command that works is "portinstall
mysql-server", which I found with a basic google search, but I
don't find that in the descriptions or Makefiles. Looking just at
what is in the ports tree (or anywhere else on a 4.9 system),
where would I properly find that name?

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Hi Bill,

I was just wondering why you would want to use portinstall to 
install new software, rather than (using your example port):
 cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql-server41
 make install
Is using portinstall magical in some way? If you use the make 
install method, there isn't any guesswork as to what name to use.

Don

  

   I've been using portupgrade/portinstall whenever possible because of
   the built-in dependency checking.