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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 1997 21:30:21 +0100
From:      xaa@stack.nl (Mark Huizer)
To:        lsmarso@panix.com (Larry Marso)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup for ports?
Message-ID:  <19970214213021.WM27935@xaa.stack.nl>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970214133949.lsmarso@panix.com>; from Larry Marso on Feb 14, 1997 13:37:55 -0500
References:  <XFMail.970214133949.lsmarso@panix.com>

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Larry Marso writes:
> I use cvsup to update -current /usr/src files.
> 
> I noted a reference to the use of cvsup to keep a local /usr/ports directory up
> to date.  How is this done?  Importantly, does this procedure pull the
> distfiles?  (The desirable answer would be, for most people I assume, NO).
> 

If you take the example file in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile,
you have a nice thing to work with, it does exactly what you want. 
The ports-all target does not fetch the distfiles.

Mark Huizer



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