Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:06:32 -0500 From: "William Wong" <willwong@samurai.com> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? Message-ID: <003d01c09213$039c1b10$0300a8c0@magus> References: <Pine.A41.4.21.0102080920510.79438-100000@mead4.u.washington.edu>
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Does anyone know if the openpackages.org project will support updating? - Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kraemer" <kraemer@u.washington.edu> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? > What about extending "make" so that it is possible to do the following: > > $ cd /usr/ports/foo/bar > $ make update > > "make" would then automatically deal with updating dependencies for that > specific port, remove the old version and build the new one. > > I know this thread is mostly about updating all your ports at once, but > this seems to be a good start. Using "make" in such a way ties in nicely > with the current use of the ports system in my opinion. > > -Brian > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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