From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 23:11:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE4916A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:11:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891AD43D46 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:11:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:11:12 -0500 Message-ID: <4150B50B.7040208@daleco.biz> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:11:07 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curtis Vaughan References: <451E9011-0BF5-11D9-B049-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <200409211422.10752.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2004 23:11:12.0968 (UTC) FILETIME=[49C41C80:01C4A030] cc: "Donald J. O'Neill" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port upgrading - my way X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 23:11:10 -0000 Curtis Vaughan wrote: > OK, I took Donald on with his test and this is what I got: > > Here's my INDEX-5 info before running portversion > > 4947853 Mar 15 2004 INDEX-5 > > and here it is after > > 5804696 Sep 21 13:54 INDEX-5 > > So, a definite change. There might be something to be said for doing it "my way", after all, Frank Sinatra made a fortune in that manner... You could join in the FreeBSD tradition, though, and do it the Right Way(tm) ... http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html An excellent tutorial/article by Dru Lavigne.... ;-) Kevin Kinsey