problem setting a default port (pgsql)

[beavis]

i have been using fbsd 8 for a month now and have a problem i can't figure out.
i want to add options in make.conf to have pgsql-84 as default, but my attempts have been useless. pgsql-82 is always used.
for apache22 i found info on the net and have the following in make.conf

WITH_APACHE2=yes
APACHE_PORT=www/apache22

with fixed apache1.3 being used, but using same logic for pgsql didn't work. i tried

WITH_PGSQL=yes
PGSQL_PORT=databases/postgresql84-client

but pgsql82 still being used.
is my guess wrong or do i have some leftover setting since i hadn't set this before my first build of ports? do i need to set both client and server? i need server but thought that client is used first and server version might be used on that. is that right?

 

[DutchDaemon]

/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.database.mk has:

.if defined(USE_PGSQL)

and

DEFAULT_PGSQL_VER?=	82

That should give you something to work with

 

[beavis]

[Solved] problem setting a default port (pgsql)

thanks alot . i only knew to check /usr/ports/KNOBS
this opens up alot for future ref

 

[SirDice]

thanks alot . i only knew to check /usr/ports/KNOBS
this opens up alot for future ref

Yes, there are quite a lot of variables similar to these you can set. Have a look through the files in /usr/ports/Mk/.