From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 11:46:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20672 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20428 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:46:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA16078; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:45:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:45:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Richard J. Ullery" cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Update a ports pkg? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Mar 1998, Richard J. Ullery wrote: > Greetings, > How do I update a ports package to install the new version? > Say for instance "The Gimp". pkg_delete package-old.vers.ion cd port make && make install > If im in /user/ports/graphics/gimp/ > there is a CVS directory that looks like it may control this? > Is there a way to update it or even just check for updated info on the > port? cvs update Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message