Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 17:45:45 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: port upgrades Message-ID: <20040608004545.GA57836@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200406072101.15542.dgw@liwest.at> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040607102435.02945ae8@209.132.1.30> <200406071914.34323.dgw@liwest.at> <20040607193539.GA39728@xor.obsecurity.org> <200406072101.15542.dgw@liwest.at>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:01:15PM +0000, Daniela wrote: > On Monday 07 June 2004 19:35, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +0000, Daniela wrote: > > > On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory > > > > ??? I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but just get the > > > > latest port files for a particular port. > > > > Right now, if i want to make sure the ports are up to date, I have > > > > to use sysinstall to download the entire port collection, which takes > > > > forever... > > > > Am I missing a quick utility to just check and make sure I have the > > > > latest port files for one at a time ? > > > > > > You could use CVSup to update just the directories you want, and you can > > > also put this into the system crontab to periodically run it. That's > > > pretty convenient. > > > > You _will_ run into problems if you only update parts of the ports > > collection. > > Well, I didn't mean upgrading of just one or two directories, but rather > skipping directories such as the japanese ports if you don't speak japanese. > Almost no ports depend on things in language-specific directories (at least > not the ones I have installed). OK, but you still can't do some things like build an index because some things do still depend on those ports you're not upgrading. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAxQw4Wry0BWjoQKURAnuLAJ922/NX4RBar7EOcZtwsHIZkH7W6wCfSxA7 fOsQM4o6YU+2rMg67fDDr/E= =uwMX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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