From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 15 22: 1:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BFA37BD68 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA26152; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:01:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <084d01bfd74f$e9aed2c0$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Tyler Spivey" , Subject: Re: ports Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:01:17 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="x-user-defined" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >ok, how do i update my p9orts? i'm just i just downloaded 4.0-r's ports. >and i'm glad of it .. but, how do i make the thing just download the port so i can make it myself? Do you mean keeping your port tree up to date, or building software using the port collection? To keep your port tree up to date, use CVSup and make sure the following is in your supfile: ports-all tag=. To build a port, simply go to that the proper directory and type 'make'; the distfile will automagically fetched. For instance, if you wanted to build Samba, you would: # cd /usr/ports/net/samba && make && make install --Dan -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message