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Date:      Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:35:39 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>
Cc:        Tim Traver <tt-list@simplenet.com>
Subject:   Re: port upgrades
Message-ID:  <20040607193539.GA39728@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200406071914.34323.dgw@liwest.at>
References:  <6.0.1.1.0.20040607102435.02945ae8@209.132.1.30> <200406071914.34323.dgw@liwest.at>

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On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +0000, Daniela wrote:
> On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote:
> >    Hi all,
> >    Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port directory ?=
??
> >    I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but just get the
> >    latest port files for a particular port.
> >    Right now, if i want to make sure the ports are up to date, I have to
> >    use sysinstall to download the entire port collection, which takes
> >    forever...
> >    Am I missing a quick utility to just check and make sure I have the
> >    latest port files for one at a time ?
>=20
> You could use CVSup to update just the directories you want, and you can =
also=20
> put this into the system crontab to periodically run it. That's pretty=20
> convenient.

You _will_ run into problems if you only update parts of the ports collecti=
on.

Kris

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