From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Jul 30 1:37:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA156150F4 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 67294 invoked by uid 1003); 30 Jul 1999 08:38:13 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 10:38:13 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Will Andrews Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I automatically upgrade a large number of ports? Message-ID: <19990730103813.A67066@rucus.ru.ac.za> References: <19990730032920.A17314@semiotek.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Will Andrews on Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:44:11AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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