Elegant way to update a port

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Wed Jan 26 18:31:39 UTC 2011


--On January 26, 2011 8:18:18 PM +0200 Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:32:51 -0600
> Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> A while ago someone posted a url to a website that explained, step by
>> step, how to update a port using cvs and a temporary directory for
>> the updated port.  My google foo apparently isn't very good, because
>> I can't seem to find it, and I forgot to bookmark it.
>>
>> Does anyone know what I'm referring to?  I really like that way of
>> updating my ports.
>
> http://ionut.tetcu.info/FreeBSD//How-to-submit-a-diff.txt
> Maybe this one?

Yes!  That was it.  And thank for the wonderful resource.

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