Adjusting configuration options during port installation?

[Duane Whitty]

Peter wrote:
> --- Duane Whitty <duane at greenmeadow.ca> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> No.  The initial install options do not depend on what port management
> utility
>   
The intended meaning of my statement was not that the initial install 
options
depend upon what port management utility a person is using but rather 
that how
you pass those options through to the underlying make does depend on which
port management utility you are using.
> you are using.  However, you do need to prepare for a possible future
> upgrade of the port that was installed with non-default compile
> options.
> If you are using portupgrade then you need to edit pkgtools.conf.  If
> you
> are using portmanager then you need to edit pkgtools.conf or pm-020.conf.
>   
--Duane