port upgrades

Daniela dgw at liwest.at
Mon Jun 7 11:22:26 PDT 2004


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 ?

You could use CVSup to update just the directories you want, and you can also 
put this into the system crontab to periodically run it. That's pretty 
convenient.

Daniela




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