From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 13 8:58: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B6037B405 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:58:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA22982; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:05:32 +0200 Message-ID: <3B4F1AF9.1F02DEF3@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 17:59:53 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "R. Lahaye" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to update my ports directories ? References: <3B4F17DB.6413E61C@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 "R. Lahaye" schrieb: > > Hi, > > I'm a newbie; moved from Linux to FreeBSD last week. > > What is the freeBSD-way of updating the /usr/ports ? That would be CVSup. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html to learn how to stay stable or current with your system. > That problem arose when I needed gtkextra-0.99.15, while the > FreeBSD 4.3 installation only comes with the gtkextra-0.99.14 port. > > I found the 0.99.15 port on the web: > www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-toolkits/gtkextra/ > from where I downloaded all the files manually, but ended during > the make with an error complaining that one of the patch files failed. > > I assume having made a mistake by manually grabbing the port. Right? Exactly. You should have d/l'ed the ports collection. > Is there an (automatic) FreeBSD-way of updating ports ? see /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade > E.g. Mandrake has that "MandrakeUpdate" tool, for those who > are (distantly) familiar with that linux distro. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message