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From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
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To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Question about installing ports from CD
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:17:24 +0930
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On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 17:59, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Now, that is exactly what portupgrade(1) does for
> installation from ports.  Knowing how good the rest of portupgrade(1)
> is, you won't be surprised to find these entries in the man page:
<snip>
No wonder pkg_update didn't look so helpful - wrong command entirely!
I printed out "man portupgrade" a short time back.  Will now study furiously.

I presume it would be necessary to add /cdrom to the PATH before using the P 
or PP options.

-- 
Regards,
Brian

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