proposal man ports change

Eitan Adler eitan.adler at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 22:50:01 UTC 2008


man ports has

--     It is possible to download and use ports from the FreeBSD repository that
     are newer than the installed system; however it is important to install
     the appropriate ``Upgrade Kit'' from http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ first!
     The portcheckout(1) (ports/ports-mgmt/portcheckout) script (also a port,
     of course!) will help to download new ports.

Which as far as I know is not used that often.

Also man ports makes no mention of "make update" or portsnap.


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