Mikael Bak <[email protected]> writes: > Hi list, > > I searched for this in the handbook, but without any hits. Google gave > me nada too. > > I have a machine running FreeBSD 7.3 and Postfix 2.7.2 installed from > ports. Unfortunately when I installed Postfix I did this: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix > make install clean > > Now when Postfix 2.8.0 is released the above path in the ports tree > points to a Postfix version I do not yet want to install. I would like > to follow Postfix 2.7.x for a while. > > So my question is: How can I make the ports system act as if I had > installed Postfix like this?: > > cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix27 > make install clean > > Is there a way to tell the ports database to "follow" and older version > of Postfix without rebuild the entire port again?
You can edit the package database by hand, but it will probably take a lot less of your time to build the whole port again. [More of the computer's time, but that's generally a much cheaper resource.] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
