From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 07:27:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B78916A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:27:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF3543D46 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:27:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from [207.41.94.233] (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j2P7RAB6003079; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:27:11 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, sergei@gnezdov.net Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 23:27:20 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503242327.20727.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: cvs as port's download source X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:27:23 -0000 On Thursday 24 March 2005 10:40 pm, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > Hi, > > Does it make sense to create a FreeBSD port with download location > beeing CVS tree at some particular day? > I have a local mirror and just comment out the cronjob while I want to update everything. The ports really don't change that much but when a major upgrade such as gnome or KDE is going on, you want all of your systems to be running the same set. Once I have packages, I turn the cronjob back on. Otherwise, you may find a P-II 350 rebilding something very time consuming :). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html