Some mistakes in Handbook (?)

Niclas Zeising niclas.zeising at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 08:21:25 UTC 2007


On 6/8/07, Marcin <martiinez at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> When I have read a FreeBSD handbook today morning I have found some
> mistakes. In the chapter...
>
> 4.5 Using the Ports Collectio -> 4.5.4 Upgrading Ports -> 4.5.4.2 & 4.5.4.3
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
>
> ... paths aren't correct.
>
> I can't go to the directories  "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade" and
> "/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager" because there aren't them. I have
> ports collection on installed FreeBSD 6.2 version.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Marcin
> http://marcink.octet.pl/
>

The paths are correct. They were changed in the ports tree sometime
earlier this year. You probably want to update your ports tree so you
get the latest versions of the ports. You can update your portstree
with csup or portsnap. Have a look in the handbook for help on how to
do that.
HTH!
//Niclas
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