nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4

[Daniel Bye]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:03:58AM -0500, Zimmerman, Eric wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Bye
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 5:25 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: nubie question - Ports - Ruby 1.8.4
> > 
> > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:52:14PM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote:
> > > FIXED! I have Ruby 1.8.4 in my tree now.
> > >
> > > I had not done...
> > > # portsnap extract
> > >
> 
> I recommend you check out portmanager as well. Makes dealing with port
> upgrades including all dependencies MUCH easier!

Agreed.  Portmanager is one of the first things I install on any new
machine.  Very simple to use, and not prone to all the 'my pkgdb got
broke' funkiness so often associated with portupgrade.

Dan

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