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From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: port upgrades
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On Monday 07 June 2004 19:35, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +0000, Daniela wrote:
> > On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote:
> > >    Hi all,
> > >    Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory
> > > ??? I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but just get the
> > > latest port files for a particular port.
> > >    Right now, if i want to make sure the ports are up to date, I have
> > > to use sysinstall to download the entire port collection, which takes
> > > forever...
> > >    Am I missing a quick utility to just check and make sure I have the
> > >    latest port files for one at a time ?
> >
> > You could use CVSup to update just the directories you want, and you can
> > also put this into the system crontab to periodically run it. That's
> > pretty convenient.
>
> You _will_ run into problems if you only update parts of the ports
> collection.

Well, I didn't mean upgrading of just one or two directories, but rather 
skipping directories such as the japanese ports if you don't speak japanese. 
Almost no ports depend on things in language-specific directories (at least 
not the ones I have installed).

Daniela