Adjusting configuration options during port installation?

[Duane Whitty]

Matt Singerman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am installing an upgrade to the Cyrus email server.  Our existing
> email boxes are in a database format that is no longer used by Cyrus;
> however, there is a configuration option which will instruct the new
> version to use the old database format.  They are
>
> --with-mboxlist-db=berkeley and --with-seen-db=flat
>
> Is there a way to tell the FreeBSD port of Cyrus to use these options?
>  I am not extremely familiar with the ports system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
> _______________
>   
Hi,

Yes, you can pass the options along but it depends
which method you are using to manage your ports.
Are you using make ..., portupgrade ..., or perhaps
portmanager ...

Checkout the portupgrade -m switch.

There may also be config and config-recursive targets
for make.