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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:20:44 -0500
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <tfcheng@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   how should I upgrade all these ports??
Message-ID:  <18795.24524.161487.807679@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <f84c38580901120708l4291a6bfy6134196a03dd8b2c@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <f84c38580901120708l4291a6bfy6134196a03dd8b2c@mail.gmail.com>

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Tsu-Fan Cheng writes:

>    I just csup my port tree this morning (01/12), and realized
>  there is a whole lot ports need my attention (49 of them). I
>  checked out UPDATES and found out that gnome and GTK+ have just
>  been updated. But i don't have gtkmm or gnome-session installed,
>  I wonder if I should still upgrade my ports just as described in
>  the UPDATES.

	In short, yes.  Many (but not all) of these a) are part of
GNOME or b) have a GNOME component in their dependencies.  The
update procedure is there for a reason.
	(Advice: make sure you have the latest vesion of UPDATING.
Additional useful information was added in the last 24 hours.)


				Robert Huff





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