From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 9 06:32:57 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 725F116A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:32:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA7C43D41 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:32:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.216] (c-24-1-210-118.client.comcast.net[24.1.210.118]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004120906325501200bvguse>; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:32:56 +0000 Message-ID: <41B7F103.2030802@computer.org> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:30:27 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <41B643E5.6080302@netual.pt> <20041208001246.GA77763@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041208001246.GA77763@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorry for the newbie questions :( 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: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 06:32:57 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>I read a lot about cvsup and other stuff, but it seems very confusing to >>me. I cannot understand the whole picture. >>My question is: how can i "import" a *single* port ? > > > You cannot do this safely, because how do you know which other "single > ports" must also be updated along with it in order for it to be > buildable? > I'm relatively new so please bear with me.... I have installed 5.3-RELEASE ... and did a 'make install clean' for all ports of interest. Then firefox and thunderbird (for example) came out with v1.0. So I did a 'make deinstall clean' for each. Downloaded the newest version of the contents of those directories from freebsd.org (using browser b4 I deinstalled and placed in temp dir) and copied it in there myself. The did a 'make install clean' for each. But... given your comments above... am I headed for disaster down the road if I continue to 'upgrade' ports in this fasion? Thanks, -- Regards, Eric