Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:23:55 -0500 From: frzburn <frzburn@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one? Message-ID: <2942dae0703031923q2887c59dh85f103bff424e7b7@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi everyone, I'm a new FreeBSD user, but a veteran Linux user ;) I'm using FreeBSD 6, and I was wondering while I gave a try to rebuilding ``world'' how to properly synchronize my source. Here's what I mean: After my successful installation of FreeBSD, I looked on www.bsdguides.orgfor some tips and... guides. So I learned how to properly keep my port tree updated with portsnap, with the help of this guide: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/beginners/portsnap.php. It says that portsnap is the ``new'' method to keep your ports tree up to date. After that, I looked for how to update FreeBSD with the latest packages from the STABLE branch. So I looked at the handbook, in the section 21. The section 21.3 ( http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html) tells us how to ``synchronize my source''. But it only talks about cvsup (and others), not about portsnap. But cvsup is considered obsolete by BSDGuides.org... So here come my questions: Is portsnap syncing the sources correctly for rebuilding world, or must I use cvsup? If so, of what use is portsnap if I must use cvsup for synchronizing my source? In fact, I'm just looking at the most up-to-date/approved/correct technique/tool to synchronize my source for ``rebuilding world'' with the latest sources from FreeBSD-6-STABLE. Thanks a lot!! =) frzburn
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