[freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: [freebsd-questions] weird error messages with various ports

[_1126]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:45:41PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:17:42 +0100
> _1126 <lists at elfsechsundzwanzig.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 09:44:40PM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > > That leads me to another question: Is there a way to do this while
> > > > preserving the configurations I made to the ports?
> > > > 
> > > if you have a normal installation, just move /use/ports
> > > to /usr/ports.whatever and create an empty /usr/ports.
> > > 
> > > You can then checkout the ports tree with svn.
> > 
> > I did just that. 
> > 
> > But it seems to me that I have now lost (aka 'it is in a different
> > copy of the ports tree) all the configuration changes I did to various
> > ports, like enabling patches in mail/mutt or which video drivers
> > x11/xorg should install... Is there a way to copy those from one copy
> > of a ports tree to another?
> > 
> > Or am I just overlooking something here? ;)
> 
> you should have them in the other ports tree named /usr/ports.whatever

Yes, I do. 

But imagine, I want to switch to the svn-style update of my ports tree
and ditch portsnap because of situations like today. Can I copy my configurations?

I hope you don't mind me asking.

Christian.