Updating Ports

Nikolas Britton freebsd at nbritton.org
Wed Sep 8 03:47:42 PDT 2004


stuart.gibson at bridgeman.co.uk wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am trying to find the easiest way to update my current rsync port.  
>I'm currently running rsync 2.5.6_1 and want to update it to rsync 
>2.6.2.
>
>Can anyone tell me the easiest way to do this.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Stuart
>  
>
portupgrade is what you want

portupgrade tutorial:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Chapter 4 of the FreeBSD Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html



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