Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 22:22:40 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Christopher Schulte <christopher@schulte.org> Cc: Christopher K Davis <ckd@ckdhr.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports Message-ID: <3A67C110.F54711CA@math.missouri.edu> References: <F186yAphwFutJLtosJ3000026e1@hotmail.com> <024201c08185$44c5efb0$3028680a@tgt.com> <3A6772B4.4E9FBE74@cisco.com> <w4ae8os0qo.fsf@kline-station.ckdhr.com> <20010118214530.A63218@schulte.org>
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Christopher Schulte wrote: > > This is what I've done when cvsup didn't properly update an older > ports tree.... > > mv ports ports.old ; cvsup ports-supfile > > Causing, as you guessed, cvsup to pull down a freshly current ports tree. > > My only concern would be if I wanted to come back at a later date and modify > a port which was installed from ports.old.... would the pkg_* suite > still be able to recognize and deal with this? Are there other dependency > issues which one should be aware? > I think that kind of info is stored in /var/db/pkg so doing what you do would create no (additional) problems. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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