From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 1 10:37:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6003737B422 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) Received: from scarlet.my.domain (1Cust61.tnt2.buffalo.ny.da.uu.net [63.20.90.61]) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA25108; Tue, 1 May 2001 10:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ipt@localhost) by scarlet.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA01352; Tue, 1 May 2001 13:37:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ipt) From: User Ipt Ian Patrick Thomas Message-Id: <200105011737.NAA01352@scarlet.my.domain> Subject: Re: Easy way to upgrade ports. In-Reply-To: <200104301234.FAA14286@albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net> from dave at "Apr 30, 2001 02:35:18 am" To: dleimbac@earthlink.net Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 13:37:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Operating System: FreeBSD X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Go to www.freebsd.org and see if you can find a link to a few packages that allow you to use the ports from STABLE. I believe they are called upgrade kits. After doing that you should be able to grab the latest distfiles and install as usual. One word of advice, once the upgrade kit has been installed it is on there for good and cannot be removed by pkg_delete(at least if was this way on my 3.2 RELEASE system). Ian As told by, dave [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > CVSup is a little confusing.... > > Can someone give me a general overview of how to upgrade ports to the > latest of individual packages that won't work anymore... GIMP or BitchX > for example would be great starting points... The files that are supposed > to be downloaded aren't there at all. > > Dave > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Have blue screens given you the blues, go to www.freebsd.org for the cure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message