From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 24 10:21:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FF631065691 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:21:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Matthias.Apitz@oclc.org) Received: from mail.pica.nl (mail.pica.nl [192.87.44.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11788FC19 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:21:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Matthias.Apitz@oclc.org) Received: from rebelion.Sisis.de ([10.0.1.29]) by mail.pica.nl with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:12 +0100 Received: (from guru@localhost) by rebelion.Sisis.de (8.14.2/8.13.8/Submit) id n2OALAVV005089; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from matthias.apitz@oclc.org) X-Authentication-Warning: rebelion.Sisis.de: guru set sender to matthias.apitz@oclc.org using -f Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:10 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20090324102110.GA4829@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090324095431.GA4288@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20090324100714.GA451@muon.cran.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090324100714.GA451@muon.cran.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (i386) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Mar 2009 10:21:12.0250 (UTC) FILETIME=[4184C1A0:01C9AC6A] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updated "world" to CURRENT, how to update ports to CURRENT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:21:16 -0000 El día Tuesday, March 24, 2009 a las 10:07:14AM +0000, Bruce Cran escribió: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:54:31AM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I've updated FreeBSD in some VM from 7.0-REL to CURRENT (without any > > problem); but I'm unsure now how to bring the ports tree /usr/ports to > > CURRENT; > > > > normally in 7.0-REL I've used 'portsnap fetch update', but this will > > perhaps not bring the ports tree to CURRENT; I've read a lot the > > handbook about, but it is not clear for me; should I use CVS as well to > > bring the /usr/ports to CURRENT, or something else? > > > > The ports tree isn't versioned like /usr/src; 'portsnap fetch' will > always fetch the latest copy from cvs mainline, and the only way to go back to > a branch (e.g RELENG_5_5_0) is by using csup, which you would only > really want to do if you're using a release of FreeBSD which has gone > out of support, such as 5.x. What made me worry about this was reading http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches.... I have now thrown away the /usr/ports which came from the 70R CDROM and did a # cvs checkout ports now, for example, ports/UPDATING is bleeding edge; Thx for your feedback in any case matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/