christopher wrote:
Hey, how does everyone manage their ports in terms of
keeping them up-to-date?
I know about csup, portupgrade, etc., and I think
they are great, but if you only have one app that you
want to upgrade because it was buggy at a previous
time, then it doesn't seem like a practical undertaking
when you consider all of the other apps involved and
the build times for things such as openoffice and kde.
(Though I don't use the latter, I do know it's a long
process.)
So, do you simply fetch the ports skeleton manually and
take it from there? This has been my approach and it
works fine, but I was just curious if there are other
ways people are using.
If you want a specific example, an openoffice 2.3
snapshot that was out there right around the new year
there was a glib error that was causing it to hang in a
loop. A patch was created and I think it has now been
submitted. So of course since all of my other software
is running fine, I don't need/want to deal with getting
it all updated.
Thanks for any input. ~ Chris
A very simple solution is use csup to update your ports tree (I know
this is time consuming but it is the only safe way) and then use
portupgrade on per package basis (portupgrade cat/port .. ex portupgrade
www/firefox) that will rebuild any dependand ports also vs. just using
fetch and/or make deinstall distclean install
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