From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 00:46:09 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B42C616A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:46:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB2B43D31 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:46:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-35.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.35])i580jknV029993; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:45:46 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 50DDF51770; Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:45:45 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Daniela Message-ID: <20040608004545.GA57836@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040607102435.02945ae8@209.132.1.30> <200406071914.34323.dgw@liwest.at> <20040607193539.GA39728@xor.obsecurity.org> <200406072101.15542.dgw@liwest.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200406072101.15542.dgw@liwest.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Tim Traver cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: port upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 00:46:09 -0000 --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:01:15PM +0000, Daniela wrote: > 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 directo= ry > > > > ??? 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 ha= ve > > > > to use sysinstall to download the entire port collection, which tak= es > > > > 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. >=20 > Well, I didn't mean upgrading of just one or two directories, but rather= =20 > skipping directories such as the japanese ports if you don't speak japane= se.=20 > Almost no ports depend on things in language-specific directories (at lea= st=20 > not the ones I have installed). OK, but you still can't do some things like build an index because some things do still depend on those ports you're not upgrading. Kris --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAxQw4Wry0BWjoQKURAnuLAJ922/NX4RBar7EOcZtwsHIZkH7W6wCfSxA7 fOsQM4o6YU+2rMg67fDDr/E= =uwMX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--