From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 11:44: 3 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 002C737B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3DD43E6A for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:44:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020927184401.OILY1696.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@localhost.localdomain>; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:44:01 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g8RIkJ3q013251; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8RIkD3Y013248; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Inge Thorin =?iso-8859-1?q?Eids=E6ther?= Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading ports from sources outside ports tree References: <20020927174436.1cf77f4d.webdude@phreaker.net> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 27 Sep 2002 11:46:13 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20020927174436.1cf77f4d.webdude@phreaker.net> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Inge Thorin Eidsæther 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