From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 17 0: 7: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from benny.geektank.org (00-04-ac-38-0e-e8.bconnected.net [209.53.63.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87EB637B424 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:06:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmchow@sfu.ca) Received: from localhost (tmchow@localhost) by benny.geektank.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3H76iw13472 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:06:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmchow@sfu.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: benny.geektank.org: tmchow owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:06:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Trevin Chow X-X-Sender: To: Subject: upgrading ports... Message-ID: <20010417000419.I13449-100000@benny.geektank.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I was following the thread a few days ago in which someone gave some good instructions on how to upgrade a port while keeping the dependencies (eg. update the +CONTENTS and +REQUIRED by in teh appropriate dirs). There has got to be a better way to do this than editing each +CONTENTS file by hand! For example, some ports have like 10 package dependencies.. (eg. XFree 86). Anyone with some advice here? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message