From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 8:43:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from frogger.telerama.com (frogger.telerama.com [205.201.1.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C5537B4EC for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:43:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cwaiken@localhost) by frogger.telerama.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA09124 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:43:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: frogger.telerama.com: cwaiken owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:43:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Christopher W. Aiken" To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Ports Tree Update Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE and would like to update my ports tree. I was going to do: 1) download new ports.tar.gz from ftp.freebsd.org 2) rm -rf /usr/ports 3) cd /usr; tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz Is that the suggested way? Best way? -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com : A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station........ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message