From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 20 19:21:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-56.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACD8E37B40C for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5D30166BA3; Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:21:53 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: randy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updated Ports Message-ID: <20020620192153.B72414@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020620153616.D24374-100000@desert.turbowarp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020620153616.D24374-100000@desert.turbowarp.net>; from randy@turbowarp.net on Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:38:51PM -0400 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 --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:38:51PM -0400, randy wrote: > Is it proper to download individual ports into the ports tree? Or do I > have to update the whole thing, for some reason? You can download individual ports, but unless you're installing trivial ports with no dependencies you're almost certain to get yourself tied in knots doing it this way. It really isn't hard or bandwidth-expensive to update the entire ports collection using cvsup. Kris --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9Eo3AWry0BWjoQKURAo1mAKD+HGjw25N9fIB5VTCFMpJSdNoOpACaA1E7 83Mbw/GJdzXxbGhNOR2v3pE= =c7rq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tjCHc7DPkfUGtrlw-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message