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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 1997 05:49:28 -0800 (PST)
From:      Donald Burr <dburr@POBoxes.com>
To:        (justin wells) <stem@atom.ntgi.net>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: upgrade ports?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971117055124.dburr@POBoxes.com>
In-Reply-To: <m0xXMci-000miYC@atom>

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My secret spy satellite informs me that on 17-Nov-97, justin wells wrote:

>Hi, I have 2.2.2 installed and noticed that in the ports collection a lot
>of the packages there won't build -- there are newer versions of the
>ports
>out now and the file my version expects to be able to FTP doesn't exist 
>anymore.
>
>How can I update my ports collection so that this will work? Or will that
>cause compatibility problems? (new versions not work with 2.2.2?) 

FTP to ftp.freebsd.org, and cd to /pub/FreeBSD/ports-current.  Grab any of
the directories in there, or, if you want to update all of your ports in
one shot (and you have a fast network connection or are willing to keep
your ppp link up for an hour or so), grab "ports-current.tar" (this will
instruct the ftp server to automagically tar up the whole directory
structure on-the-fly).

I've never had problems with the new ports not building with 2.2.2.

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