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Date:      Thu, 6 May 2004 01:41:39 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Clint Olsen <clint@0lsen.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Ports gripe
Message-ID:  <20040506084139.GA46638@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040506083437.GA20499@0lsen.net>
References:  <20040506081747.GA7969@0lsen.net> <20040506082107.GA46385@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040506083437.GA20499@0lsen.net>

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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:34:37AM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote:
> On May 06, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >=20
> > Sounds like you forgot to do 'make all deinstall reinstall' to remove t=
he
> > old version first ;-)
>=20
> So, is there a way to do this via the port interface?  Weaving in and out
> of make-land seems pretty clunky to me...
>=20
> Port this, pkg that.  It's not what I would call 'intuitive'.

Um, what "port interface"?

> If this is written down somewhere fairly concisely, please send me a
> cluepon in the form of a URL.

Using ports is documented in the Handbook (your canonical source of
FreeBSD documentation):

  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html

See also

  http://www.freebsd.org/ports

Kris

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