From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 03:52:16 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62B416A401 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frzburn@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E39A13C4A8 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frzburn@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k27so1657490nfc for ; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:52:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=GR1Dji5Ci46tiOmKud26ZDGSCAfEyVsuKNPiu64jPPIEzKNhfklaPRBQahkAdyfz2GrYpoQHUuk/H8k+VZdkLHZPVpoCtX8HUIJiTFiZhQNU5+9hWPPo+dWWXF7idcNr5qSm4Le7zGsnGI7eB5wYzVNidbFhIUy6azZiaLpg9e4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=PhrhBMqI/4ZyxTieFcnxUt1qiFcVQwJlIgwiEBM3EGfGY837oUYVswWQxeTNhsPIyfzI4TjsraJZsKezl6JgrSHXti2aWj5iH1ddTb2DORnwfFXRhjOkUC6ppAzo8Q0P9CuwJS855qCZU8CPTIcy3/BHU3KKkdJzBvUEs6merzc= Received: by 10.82.113.6 with SMTP id l6mr3163831buc.1172978635600; Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.139.19 with HTTP; Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:23:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <2942dae0703031923q2887c59dh85f103bff424e7b7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 22:23:55 -0500 From: frzburn To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: portsnap and cvsup for rebuilding world - Which one? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:52:16 -0000 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