From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 19:46:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F46B16A400 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lisa@jellico.com) Received: from mail.jellico.com (mail.jellico.com [208.44.26.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F5F43D46 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lisa@jellico.com) Received: from lisac (lisa.jellico.com [208.44.26.213]) by mail.jellico.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k2EJwCom021705 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:58:13 -0500 Message-ID: <02ef01c6479f$f194f0c0$d51a2cd0@lisac> From: "Lisa Casey" To: Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:46:09 -0500 Organization: Netlink 2000, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 127.0.0.1 Subject: Updating ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:46:56 -0000 Hi Folks, I might be a bit confused here. If so, I'm sure you'll tell me about it ;-) I'm running FreeBSD 5.3. I want to update my ports. So I went to the FreeBSD handbook and started reading up on how to do that. According to what I read, I need to install cvsup then create a supfile. OK, so far so good. I just now installed cvsup-without-gui (I'm not running any kind of gui - this is a server). I don't want to update my entire system from FreeBSD 5.3 to something else then do all the make world stuff (although it would be a good idea for me to learn how to do that someday - I just want to update my ports). I got started on this because I wanted to install webmin but I noticed that, in my ports collection the version of webmin is 1.150 whereas the current webmin port at Freshports is version 1.260_2. I figured it would be a good idea just to go ahead and update my ports first before installing webmin so I could install the latest version from ports rather than downloading the tar.gz and installing it that way. Next I need the supfile. I took a look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile (I think that's what I want) but that looks like something that is going to upgrade the entire system (as I said - probably a good idea but I just don't want to do that now, I just want to update my ports). Can't I just update the ports without updating the entire system? If so, am I going about it the right way or am I just plain confused? If I am going about it the right way then I think there's something about the supfile that I obviously don't understand. I'ld appreciate it if someone on this list could straighten out my thinking. Thanks, Lisa Casey