Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:38:13 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I automatically upgrade a large number of ports? Message-ID: <19990730103813.A67066@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990730034411.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>; from Will Andrews on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:44:11AM -0400 References: <19990730032920.A17314@semiotek.com> <XFMail.990730034411.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM>
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On Fri 1999-07-30 (03:44), Will Andrews wrote: > > -- It's tricky relating a package name back to a directory in > > /usr/ports. Are they guaranteed to be unique? Can I do a > > cd /usr/ports/*/rsync and be sure there will never, ever > > be a /usr/ports/games/rsync as well as the one I want? > > I wouldn't try this. I don't think there are any categories with ports of the > same name at this time, but there may be in the future. Think language categories. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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