install gamin in stead of fam

Thomas Abthorpe tabthorpe at freebsd.org
Thu Nov 20 22:28:04 PST 2008


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On November 20, 2008 06:28:21 pm Dino Vliet wrote:
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> The approaches I can think of are:
>
> 1) get rid of fam and everything that requires it with pkg_deinstall -R
> fam* , then adjust /etc/make.conf to have WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin and
> reinstall all above packages one by one
>
> 2) write a shell script to automate all those steps above
>
>
> So my question boils down to this, am I on the good track? Are there
> other alternatives (or caveats)
>
> Thanks

Ater you set WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin, you should be able to perform

portupgrade -fo devel/gamin fam

This will replace the software and the appropriate dependancies. I did this 
very same thing but in reverse, gamin->fam :)

HTH


Thomas

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