Re: Sources vs. ports

2005-03-04 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Thanks for your response.


On Thursday 03 March 2005 16:21, Jeff With wrote:
 On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:47:02 -0500, Madhusudan Singh

 [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
  Hi
 
   Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing
  those parts from source. However, is there a way to let the local ports
  hierarchy know that a certain package has been installed, albeit by
  other means ?

 The handbook answer.. broken ports: fix-it, gripe or find our package
 from a local mirror...
 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-broken.html

 .. or

 build your own package w/ pkg_create
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_createsektion=1apropos=0man
path=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports

Thanks for the link. I might want to do this.


 what ports you are trying to build?

zope-cmfphoto for one.
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Re: Sources vs. ports

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff With
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:47:02 -0500, Madhusudan Singh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
 Hi
 
  Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing those
 parts from source. However, is there a way to let the local ports hierarchy
 know that a certain package has been installed, albeit by other means ?

The handbook answer.. broken ports: fix-it, gripe or find our package
from a local mirror...
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-broken.html

.. or 

build your own package w/ pkg_create
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pkg_createsektion=1apropos=0manpath=FreeBSD+5.3-RELEASE+and+Ports

what ports you are trying to build?

- jw
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