Subject: ports management, update, flavors & co
Hi,
I have some basic questions about managing the ports tree.
1) Is the favoured way to upgrade the installed ports still like this:
cd /usr/ports && make index
cd /usr/ports/infrastructure/build && sh out-of-date
I couldn't find any information about upgraden the ports. I found a
lot of infos about updating the ports tree via cvs but not how to
upgrade the installed ports when a new version comes out.
2) Is it even possible to update only certain ports? Like you have a
port xyz installed and you only want to update this specific port.
Can you switch to /usr/ports/abc/xyz and do a "make update" to check
if a new version is out?
3) Some time ago I used FreeBSD as my main server system and there
you had to specify the compile options (in OpenBSD you say FLAVOR'S)
in /etc/make.conf. There you could specify e.g. that the package xyz
should be compiled with the option "no_x11". In OpenBSD you do this
via "env FLAVOR=no_x11 make install". But what will happen when you
upgrade the port? Then you won't specify the flavor again. How does
the ports-system handle this?
I tried something like this:
/etc/mk.conf:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/net/jabberd*}
FLAVOR=db
.endif
But this doesn't work the package will be compiled with the default
flavors.
Any suggestions, hints or whatever would be fine ;-)
Best regards,
Stefan
