From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 30 8:49: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobil.cz (diana.mobil.cz [195.39.16.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C0637B407 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:49:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ester.mobil.cz (ester.mobil.cz [194.213.62.23]) by mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9UGmwR11803 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:48:59 +0100 Received: from roman.mobil.cz ([10.2.0.89]) by ester.mobil.cz (Lotus Domino Release 5.0.7) with ESMTP id 2001103017454391:21 ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:45:43 +0100 Received: (from roman@localhost) by roman.mobil.cz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9UGric36911 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:53:44 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from neuhauser@mobil.cz) X-Authentication-Warning: roman.mobil.cz: roman set sender to neuhauser@mobil.cz using -f Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 17:53:43 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Makefile in /usr/ports Message-ID: <20011030175343.E9584@roman.mobil.cz> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 10/30/2001 05:45:43 PM, Serialize by Router on ester/Mobil(Release 5.0.7 |March 21, 2001) at 10/30/2001 05:45:49 PM, Serialize complete at 10/30/2001 05:45:49 PM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:30:32 +0000 (UTC) > From: Erik Sabowski > To: > Subject: Makefile in /usr/ports > > I installed the ports collection on my system but exapnding the ports.tgz > file on the cdrom into /usr. I noticed that there was a makefile in > /usr/ports, and it looked like it was to update the ports. Is that what it > does? (i just ran 'make' with no options) The makefile contains several targets. If you want to update the ports collection, you'll have to say > make update (and you'll need to have /etc/make.conf plus the supfiles set up) BTW, you can _read_ the makefile to get an idea what it does. It's just text. -- Roman FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE 5:50PM up 7 days, 4:33, 16 users, load averages: 0.25, 0.30, 0.26 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message