From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 13:28:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.omicnet.com (ip-208-181-72-171.adsl.radiant.net [208.181.72.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A67B037B41A for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:28:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from inspector2 (130-94-160-46-dsl.hevanet.com [130.94.160.46]) by www.omicnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id NAA18744; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:28:44 -0800 From: inspector.us@omicnet.com To: Martin Karlsson Cc: FBSD Questions Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:26:00 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Organization: OMIC Portland In-Reply-To: <20020325201041.GC507@foo31-146.visit.se> Message-Id: <86VP3ZLGF05XS2UGBPKZTJEXSC987XU.3c9f95e8@inspector2> Subject: Re: Portupgrade; best bet? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Opera 6.01 build 1041 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried making the cvsupit port (recommended to me as more newbie- oriented), and had problems. It sounds like an effective way to update, and I do plan to read the docs again. Any help would be appreciated. I'm running FreeBSD 4.5 release. Thank you, Joshua 3/25/2002 12:10:42 PM, Martin Karlsson wrote: >* inspector.us@omicnet.com [2002-03- 25 11.18 -0800]: >> Hello all; >> >> I have read the handbook section on cvsup. It's a little too much for me. >> I have installed the portupgrade utility. I could use a suggestion on how to >> [best] upgrade my ports collection, as I need XFree86-4.2.0. > >How to best upgrade your ports collection: use CVSup. It really >isn't hard. However, I guess you could always download a gzip'd tar >file. You'll find a link to it at: > >http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html > >HTH >-- >Martin > > ***************************** Joshua Lokken inspector.us@omicnet.com www.omicnet.com Ph: 503 223-1497 Fax: 503 223-9436 ***************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message