To elaborate on my rather concise post, you may also want to use the
portupgrade program to avoid dependency issues:

http://www.freebsddiary.org/portupgrade.php



On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Matt Alexander wrote:

> Yes.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Lynn David Newton wrote:
>
> >
> > I think there's a fair amount of FreeBSD expertise on
> > this list, and need the answer to a fairly fundamental
> > question.
> >
> > I need to upgrade an installed package (mysql) to the
> > latest version. If I do this:
> >
> > # cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server
> > # make install clean
> >
> > will that do it for me? Is the intelligence built into
> > the system to know to look for new versions of packages
> > in some standard place?
> >
> > I'm in fairly urgent need of this info.
> >
> > Thanks a bundle.
> >
> > --
> > Lynn David Newton
> > Phoenix, AZ
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