From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 10 20:59:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D3C37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 20:59:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from cream.org ([62.31.80.67]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:59:44 +0100 Message-ID: <3B4BCF2F.2060100@cream.org> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 04:59:43 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-GB; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: abram olson Cc: Josh Paetzel , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to update ports collection References: <20010711033605.32349.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Abram and Josh, See the section on 'Refuse Files' on the cvsup man page http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cvsup they allow you to control what you do and don't update when using cvsup. Oh, and don't forget that it's much easier to use the cvsupit package detailed on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html rather than install the port. *much* easier! Hope that helped. Andrew. abram olson wrote: > awesome. Thanks Josh. Id read the section on cvsup > but I was hesitant becasue I feared an hours and hours > long download. > > I'll give it a go later tonight. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message