From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 16 7:20:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from viper.wapvi.bc.ca (a3a31612.sympatico.bconnected.net [209.53.12.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979AD37B55E for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:20:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tyler@wapvi.bc.ca) Received: (from tyler@localhost) by viper.wapvi.bc.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) id HAA03669; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:20:19 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:20:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Tyler Spivey To: "Dan O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports In-Reply-To: <084d01bfd74f$e9aed2c0$0200000a@danco> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ok.. but i mean if a programn wanted me to edit options.h.. like, lambdamoo, how would i do that? On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dan O'Connor wrote: > >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