From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 0: 6: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mout1.freenet.de (mout1.freenet.de [194.97.50.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F73D37B405 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:06:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michael.radzewitz@freenet-ag.de) Received: from [194.97.50.135] (helo=mx2.freenet.de) by mout1.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #3) id 15FsLp-00059y-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:06:01 +0200 Received: from staff.freenet-ag.de ([62.104.227.5]) by mx2.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.30 #3) id 15FsLo-0000zb-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:06:00 +0200 Received: by staff.freenet-ag.de with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:58 +0200 Message-ID: From: Michael Radzewitz To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: updating the ports via cvsup Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:56 +0200 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) 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 Hello, i have a question about the mechanism of updating the ports tree. I have setup the cvsup script and it runs very fine. It's easy and very clean to update the kernel and the base FreeBSD system. Now my question by example: I have installed php-4.0.5 via the ports procedure. A couple of weeks later i run the cvsup script and I get some new decription files for a patched version of php. I run make and it does nothing because the source files have not changed yet. I rename the work directory and run make again. Now make fetches the new sources and and starts building php again. It stops with a error messages because php needs a newer version of curl. I change into this directory and update curl in the same way (renaming the work diretory/make/make install). Is there another way to update the ports? I have looked for something like this: /usr/ports/www/mod_php4/make update The way I does the update does not seem very clean to me (the cvsup procedure at all is still the most comfortable way - i love it). I'am asking this because I am looking for a way of setting up some systems without haveing to update them by hand. Thanks in Advance Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message