ports and sources

From: mike bueide (mbueide_at_charter.net)
Date: 11/12/03

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    I've been upgrading my sources and ports
    collection via cvsup for a while now. I have a
    simple question. Are the ports tied in anyway to
    the system sources? Or are they completely
    independent of one another?

    For example, I cvsuped the sources and the
    ports tree. Then I use portupgrade after updating
    the package database to upgrade a port before I
    "make world" or update my kernel. Would this
    confuse the process of rebuilding a port?

    The reason I'm asking is because I've upgraded my
    sources from the 4.8_RELEASE to 4.9_RELEASE.
    After reading some comments about it 4.9 on the
    questions list, I've become hesitant to actually
    compile it. 

    -- 
	mbueide (at) charter (dot) net .
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