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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