make makesum build deinstall reinstall ???

[Jim Flowers]

I read this in somebody's post (thank you) in regard to using the sendmail 
port to upgrade to 8.12.10 after changing the version in the Makefile.

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.

Thanks 

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Re: 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). 

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