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Date:      Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:05:56 +0200
From:      Michael Radzewitz <michael.radzewitz@freenet-ag.de>
To:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   updating the ports via cvsup
Message-ID:  <BDC37D9EAC71AE4DB09A7A0D422EEC66039448@STAFFBOX>

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Hello,

i have a question about the mechanism of updating the ports tree.
I have setup the cvsup script and it runs very fine. It's easy and very 
clean to update the kernel and the base FreeBSD system.

Now my question by example:

I have installed php-4.0.5 via the ports procedure. A couple of 
weeks later i run the cvsup script and I get some new decription 
files for a patched version of php. I run make and it does nothing
because the source files have not changed yet. I rename the work
directory and run make again. Now make fetches the new sources
and and starts building php again. It stops with a error messages
because php needs a newer version of curl. I change into this 
directory and update curl in the same way (renaming the work 
diretory/make/make install).

Is there another way to update the ports? I have looked for
something like this:

/usr/ports/www/mod_php4/make update 

The way I does the update does not seem very clean to me
(the cvsup procedure at all is still the most comfortable
way - i love it). 

I'am asking this because I am looking for a way of setting 
up some systems without haveing to update them by hand.

Thanks in Advance 
Michael
 

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