Sorry for the newbie questions :(

[Eric Schuele]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>I read a lot about cvsup and other stuff, but it seems very confusing to 
>>me. I cannot understand the whole picture.
>>My question is: how can i "import" a *single* port ?
> 
> 
> You cannot do this safely, because how do you know which other "single
> ports" must also be updated along with it in order for it to be
> buildable?
> 
I'm relatively new so please bear with me....

I have installed 5.3-RELEASE ... and did a 'make install clean' for all 
ports of interest.  Then firefox and thunderbird (for example) came out 
with v1.0.  So I did a 'make deinstall clean' for each.  Downloaded the 
newest version of the contents of those directories from freebsd.org 
(using browser b4 I deinstalled and placed in temp dir) and copied it in 
there myself.  The did a 'make install clean' for each.  But... given 
your comments above... am I headed for disaster down the road if I 
continue to 'upgrade' ports in this fasion?

Thanks,
-- 
Regards,
Eric