switching from ports to pkg -- mailman group mismatch

David Benfell benfell at parts-unknown.org
Fri Dec 5 01:12:33 UTC 2014


On Thu, Dec 04, 2014 at 03:20:43PM -0800, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
> On 12/4/2014 1:41 PM, John Levine wrote:
> >> Second, I now find myself in a situation where some software must be
> >> installed with pkg and some must be installed from ports. If it's just
> >> mailman, that's one thing. If it becomes a bunch of packages, I have a
> >> real mess on my hands.
> >
> > Yes, we have a mess.  If you need a port compiled with other than the
> > standard options, you can't use the package, and it's a challenge
> > to keep pkg from stomping your locally compiled versions.
> 
> What issue are you seeing?

I think he means the 'pkg' version where he wrote 'package' above. The
pkg versions are obviously built with one set of options, that
hopefully get along with each other. ;-)

-- 
David Benfell <benfell at parts-unknown.org>
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