Sorry for the newbie questions :(

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:30:27AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 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?

Sooner or later you'll run into problems unless you're very careful.
e.g. the next firefox version might depend on a new version of the
libfoo port, so you'd better download the new version of that port
before you try and rebuild firefox.  This quickly becomes
unmananageable to do by hand.  It's also very hard to keep up with
patches for bugs and security vulnerabilities if you have to remember
to download dozens of ports again just in case they've changed.

Kris

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