From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 6 16:28:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4AA37B8CB for ; Sat, 6 May 2000 16:28:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 12oCK4-000KBj-00; Sat, 06 May 2000 22:41:16 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.12 #7) id 12oCK3-000Lj7-00; Sat, 06 May 2000 22:41:15 +0100 Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 22:41:15 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Robert B Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cant install Lynx from Ports collection Message-ID: <20000506224115.W79359@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <20000506194402.86971.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000506194402.86971.qmail@hotmail.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert B wrote: > I kinda figured that was the case. What is the best way to update a single > port via ftp i.e \usr\ports\www\lynx? I'm not sure what those backslashes are doing in there, they should probably be slashes. Anyway, to update a single port I think you'll have to use FTP. Dig around on the FreeBSD ftp site, you should be able to find where the ports are. You probably don't want to update a single port though, it's easier to update it all at once, see below: > Also whats the best way to update the compleate ports collection via > ftp? You don't, cvsup is designed for this. See the example supfiles under /usr/share/examples/cvsup, and install the cvsup port or package (I think the cvsup-bin port might be better as you won't have to install Modula-3 as well). -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message