Multiple port versions

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jan 3 07:49:05 PST 2007


In the last episode (Jan 03), Vizion said:
> Just been doing a check on installed applications. 
> 
> pkg_info shows multiple installed versions of autoconf, automake, db
> & gnupg. viz:
> 
> autoconf-2.13.000227_5 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms 
> autoconf-2.53_3     Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms 
> autoconf-2.59_2     Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms 
> automake-1.4.6_2    GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.4)
> automake-1.5_2,1    GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.5)
> automake-1.9.6      GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator (1.9)
> db4-4.0.14_1,1      The Berkeley DB package, revision 4
> db42-4.2.52_5       The Berkeley DB package, revision 4.2
> gnupg-1.4.6_3       The GNU Privacy Guard
> gnupg-2.0.1         The GNU Privacy Guard

Those are all separate ports that don't conflict with each other.  You
can check by running pkg_info -L on a couple of them and see that they
either install into their own subdirectories, or have version prefixes
on their files.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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