port upgrades

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:01:15PM +0000, Daniela wrote:
> On Monday 07 June 2004 19:35, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +0000, Daniela wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > You _will_ run into problems if you only update parts of the ports
> > collection.
> 
> Well, I didn't mean upgrading of just one or two directories, but rather 
> skipping directories such as the japanese ports if you don't speak japanese. 
> Almost no ports depend on things in language-specific directories (at least 
> not the ones I have installed).

OK, but you still can't do some things like build an index because
some things do still depend on those ports you're not upgrading.

Kris
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