From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 23: 6:16 2002 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 C87FA37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:06:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E1CB43E31 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 23:06:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yid@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 25743 invoked by uid 417); 9 Jul 2002 06:06:08 -0000 Received: from shunt-smtp-out-0 (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.3.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 9 Jul 2002 06:06:08 -0000 Received: from unknown ([216.194.5.100]) (AUTH: LOGIN yid@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 00:06:07 -0600 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 02:04:18 -0400 From: Joshua Lee To: Brian McCann Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patch/Update via ports? Message-Id: <20020709020418.1de6a407.yid@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: <014801c21f11$2a1af4f0$1500a8c0@mobilecube> References: <014801c21f11$2a1af4f0$1500a8c0@mobilecube> Organization: Plan B Software Labs X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 28 Jun 2002 22:03:29 -0400 Brian McCann wrote: > vulnerable to the new worm. My question is, how do I go about updating the > install without deinstalling and re-installing the port? I figured Portupgrade is nice. If you want to keep your whole system, or major catagories of it, automatically up to date use cvsup and the so-called build world proceedure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message