Upgrade Tool

[Randy Pratt]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:58:58 -0700
Chris Maness <chris at chrismaness.com> wrote:

> Currently, I download the tarballs for each specific application by 
> hand, delete the old folder, then untar the new directory in the ports 
> tree.  Is there an app that does this without having to do this by 
> hand.  I know about cvs syncing the whole ports tree, but I prefer to 
> upgrade the specific applications that have issues not the whole tree.

You might try devel/portcheckout.  I've used this in the past to
upgrade/downgrade specific ports when there was sufficient reason
to do so.  I avoid doing this since (IMHO) its much easier to just
maintain the whole tree on a regular basis than to administer a
custom ports tree.

HTH,

Randy
--