How to make portmaster install latest version of dependencies

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kenyloveg

Hi, fellows
I've got some questions here:
  1. How to make portmaster install latest version of dependencies, example install mail/postfix with openldap support, need to install openldap, but i want openldap-server-2.4.26 to be installed, not openldap-server-2.3.43?
  2. How to remove package configurations made by first time "make install clean", so that i can choose which module to be compiled again?
Thanks and have a good day.
 
kenyloveg said:
1. how to make portmaster install latest version of dependencies,
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It does that by default.

ex:install postfix with openldap support, need to install openldap, but i want openldap-server-2.4.26 to be installed, not openldap-server-2.3.43 ?
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If I'm not mistaken 2.4.x is the standard, unless another version is already installed.

2. how to remove package configurations made by first time "make install clean", so that i can choose which module to be compiled again?
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# make rmconfig or # make rmconfig-recursive See ports(7).
 
Hi, SirDice
That openldap thing is just a example. Let's make a more reasonable example, install dovecot with postgresql support, will default install postgresql84, not postgresql91...... Then how to install latest version dependencies like this?
 
It depends. For some ports you can set which version you want. For example for MySQL you can add to /etc/make.conf:
Code: 
DEFAULT_MYSQL_VER=51
This would use MySQL version 5.1.x. For PostgreSQL:
Code: 
DEFAULT_PGSQL_VER=84

Similar variables exist for others. Have a look at the scripts in /usr/ports/Mk/.
 
Hi, SirDice
Thanks for your reply.
What i can do now is to install all of these software/dependencies by portmaster, then make sure the version is the latest one, otherwise i have to start over:
  1. install latest version one by one, to avoid dependencies, start from software with less dependency.
  2. modify .mk files under /usr/ports/Mk/, then portmaster
Is there anyway for me to choose which version during portmaster finding different version of dependencies?
Guess not......i can live with this......
 
kenyloveg said:
2. modify .mk files under /usr/ports/Mk/,
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Do NOT modify any of those scripts! It will break the entire ports system!

Is there anyway for me to choose which version during portmaster finding different version of dependencies?
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Yes, you set them, like the examples I gave you for MySQL and PostgreSQL, in /etc/make.conf.
 
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