From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 8 13: 6:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.rdc1.on.home.com (femail1.rdc1.on.home.com [24.2.9.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BC337B6B1 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:06:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from magus ([24.114.209.187]) by femail1.rdc1.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20010208210524.ECLD28457.femail1.rdc1.on.home.com@magus> for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:05:24 -0800 Message-ID: <003d01c09213$039c1b10$0300a8c0@magus> From: "William Wong" To: References: Subject: Re: Ports updating... Good ways? Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:06:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Does anyone know if the openpackages.org project will support updating? - Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kraemer" To: ; 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