From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 23 12:18:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE4BD37B405 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 12:18:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 57819 invoked by uid 100); 23 Jun 2001 19:18:16 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15156.60280.110817.571763@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 14:18:16 -0500 To: "default013 - subscriptions" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port upgrade In-Reply-To: <64390603@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 default013 - subscriptions types: > I'm trying to find a good way to update one port in my ports tree... I just This isn't really a safe thing to do, as the ports are pretty tightly coupled with the make include files in /usr/ports/Mk. However, the easy way to get a single port is just ftp it from . You don't even need to put it in the ports tree - you can build it wherever you feel like installing it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message