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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 17:18:29 -0500
From:      Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org>
To:        "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, stan <stanb@awod.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XFree86 4.2
Message-ID:  <20020305221829.B1FC3BA03@i8k.babbleon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020305220037.5F2675D06@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20020305220037.5F2675D06@ptavv.es.net>

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On Tuesday 05 March 2002 05:00 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 16:25:26 -0500
> > From: stan <stanb@awod.com>

> > > the 4.2 port appeared and disappeared from the tree, but is still
> > > available and works fine.
> > >
> > > (If you don't know what a meta-port is, look at
> > > /usr/ports/x11/gnome/Makefile.)
> >
> > So what are teh _advantegse_ of a metaport?
> >
> > O'm dealing with on _disdvantage_ at the moment. For reasons involving
> > my own stupidity, I find myself with a broken Gnome installlation even
> > though the ports db thinks it' fine. But since it's a metaport, I can't
> > just do "portupgrade -f gnome" :-(
> >
> > Must be a positive side to this, right? Otherwise you could just install
> > all of it with a trivial shell loop over the various appropriate
> > directories in the ports tree.

Why not   portupgrade -R -f gnome?

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