how to install a different sub-release from the port

[Frank Staals]

Marty Landman wrote:

> Want to install Apache and already have a copy on my LAN of 
> apache_1.3.29.tar.gz; when going to /usr/ports/
>
> # cd www/apache13
> # make install
> >> apache_1.3.27.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
>
> How can I get make to look for apache_1.3.29 instead of 1.3.27? Or is 
> it possible for me to install "manually" instead of going through the 
> ports collection?
>
> Marty
>
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You can install a newer release of apache by upgrading your portstree 
and than compiling it again ( use cvsup for the upgrading part: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html )

if you want to compile the exact version without the ports ( the linux 
way ) than you have to download the sourcecode from www.apache.org 
extract it, run a ./configure && make && make install to install ( see 
docs apache for exact install )

btw. why don't you use apache-2 ?

Frank Staals