From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Apr 5 21:56: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8301D37B798 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:56:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA28652; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 21:55:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38EC18DD.8AE5C4CD@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:55:57 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0325 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stijn Hoop Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading a port References: <20000404101403.A76346@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Stijn Hoop wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm new to this list so bear with me if this has been asked before, > but is there a quick way to 'upgrade' a port if its already installed? > E.g. I have gnumeric-0.50.0 installed, my ports tree is updated to > -0.51.0 (by way of cvsup), what's the quickest way to upgrade gnumeric? I usually do a 'make' in the new port directory, then when I'm satisfied it's ready to be installed I do 'pkg_delete old-port' and then 'make install'. Good luck, Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message