It would appear you can set a regexp variable thus (for example): PORTSCOUT=limit:^1.4 In a ports Makefile to prevent portscout looking for newer versions, very useful if you need to put a legacy version in the tree.
Another upgrade of PHP from the FreeBSD ports collection and another problem! Am I alone, well searching would appear to suggest not. I wonder why this one set of ports causes me so much trouble. Still getting used to the quirks now! Today’s problem concerned loading the GD graphics library. It produced the following error: [...]
I recently saw a blog post with some tips for dealing with the FreeBSD ports tree. The tip I thought was particularly useful regarding creating binary backups (i.e. packages) of important ports before upgrading them, just in case you need to roll back by installing the package. pkg_create -b portname will create a package for [...]
Another woe when doing an upgrade. This time Exim would fail to start claiming it couldn’t find libperl.so. Help! Still a very quick search turned up a solution that worked perfectly for me (not that I use any cpanel stuff). http://www.scriptinstallation.in/libperl_not_found.html There is a command perl-after-upgrade which can be run that cleans up all the [...]
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