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From: Mark Hummel <mhumm2@mchsi.com>
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Subject: Re: Portupgrade; best bet?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:35:10 -0600
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Kenneth,

I suggest you take a look online at BSD Diary.  There's an article there that 
I thought was very good about the program you're writing about.  CVSUP is 
over my head as well at this point.  Portupgrade looks a lot easier to me and 
i learned much on the Diary site.  Good luck.

Mark

On Monday 25 March 2002 03:23 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote:
> Portupgrade is used for upgrading individual ports, not the ports tree...
> cvsup is really the only option I know of to do what you want to do.
>
> Ken
>
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 inspector.us@omicnet.com wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
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