Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

I know this may seem weird to downgrade. Actually I'm working in the information security area. I want to setup an old (and vulnerable) wu-ftpd release, with specific compilation options. But I want it to be as close as possible to the freebsdb package. Thank you to everybody for supporting me on

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

Eric Devolder wrote: Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I "refresh" the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my /usr/po

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

On 10/6/05, Eric Devolder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe > just a side question: Can I "refresh" the files contained in > /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like > to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I "refresh" the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my /usr/ports reflects only ports

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

Sorry, I lost the beginning of this thread, On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:50:40PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Eric Devolder wrote: > [ ... ] > >My specific questions are: > >* how to fetch the source code of a port? and especially from another > >release? Look in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk There ar

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

Eric Devolder wrote: [ ... ] My specific questions are: * how to fetch the source code of a port? and especially from another release? cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix # or whatever port you want make fetch If you want to fetch a different version of the port, you can change the Makefile in th

how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

Hi there, I'm newby to FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0 and here is my wish: I would like to fetch the sources for an old port release ( I know I can grab it from ftp-archive.freebsd.org but I don't know how to fetch the sources with freebsd command line tools), change the makefile and/

how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

Hi there, I'm newby to FreeBSD. I'm using FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0 and here is my wish: I would like to fetch the sources for an old port release ( I know I can grab it from ftp-archive.freebsd.org but I don't know how to fetch the sources with freebsd command line