make makesum build deinstall reinstall ???

[Adam McLaurin]

On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 15:58, Jim Flowers wrote:
> It worked great but now I would like to know more about this method.  Are 
> these targets documented somewhere?  Are there limitations/dangers/gotchas 
> to watch out for?  I like to use the latest stable version of applications 
> but the port is often 1 or more versions back.

man 7 ports
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.html

Using makesum is generally discouraged for the end-user, as checksum
verification is there as a safety precaution (to make sure you don't end
up with some tampered/modified tarball). 

-- 
Adam McLaurin <blueeskimo at gmx.net>
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