Date: 27 Sep 2002 11:46:13 -0700 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Inge Thorin =?iso-8859-1?q?Eids=E6ther?= <webdude@phreaker.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading ports from sources outside ports tree Message-ID: <u3znu35kzu.nu3@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20020927174436.1cf77f4d.webdude@phreaker.net> References: <20020927174436.1cf77f4d.webdude@phreaker.net>
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Inge Thorin Eidsæther <webdude@phreaker.net> writes: > Is there some manual way to do it that does not require me to be > an experienced programmer? I doubt it, if you're not willing to get your hands dirty learning to decipher Makefiles as are used by ports. It doesn't take a very long time to learn enough to manange occasional successful kludging. See the make and gmake manuals and O'Reilly has a very small book on make and Google should find you several intros and tutorials. In this case, you've at least got the problem of the patches in ports/www/mod_php4/files/. You'd probably need to examine them and try to determine which have been fixed in the new source (after doing "make extract" to get the source into work/). I suppose you could try just deleteing the patches, but some might be there to implement FreeBSD-isms or something. If decide to get your hands really dirty, you'll want to consult http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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