On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 3:43 AM, Guido Falsi <madpi...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 10/13/13 18:40, Joe Nosay wrote: > >> Will the pkg upgrade work with applications built from ports and not pkg >> add $APPLICATION? >> > > I'm not sure What you mean. > > the "pkg upgrade" command works only using binary packages, which can come > and "official" repository or your own one. > > This is going to work. > > If you have a system where you used to build packages yourself and want to > change to binary packages, things are more complicated. > > First of all if you have any port built with custom options you are going > to loose those customizations, since the binary packages don't have them. > > I think pkg will try to handle that upgrade but I have never tried, it > could work but you could also end up with come misalignment in your ports. > > It is generally not a good idea to mix ports and pkgs, it can work but > problems will come up. > > -- > Guido Falsi <madpi...@freebsd.org> > Thanks much. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
