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Date:      Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:21:53 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        randy <randy@turbowarp.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Updated Ports
Message-ID:  <20020620192153.B72414@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020620153616.D24374-100000@desert.turbowarp.net>; from randy@turbowarp.net on Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:38:51PM -0400
References:  <20020620153616.D24374-100000@desert.turbowarp.net>

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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

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