port questions (why do I find myself fudging symlinks to make stuff work?)

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:34:05PM -0800, paul beard wrote:
> 
> On Mar 31, 2004, at 4:29 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> >You're not doing it right, then :-)
> >
> >Use portupgrade with the -PP switch to force the use of packages.
> >
> 
> What if there isn't a package for a given port? I wasn't aware there 
> were packages (though I suppose for an ancient release like 4.9 there 
> might be).

Well, then you can't use it :) There are certainly up-to-date packages
for the basic ports like expat that you're having problems with.

Kris
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