Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:51:32 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: Gerardo Amaya <gerardo@delaluz.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup and port collection Message-ID: <20011218195132.A24154@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <3C1F8684.2B321628@delaluz.net>; from gerardo@delaluz.net on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:10:12PM -0600 References: <3C1F8684.2B321628@delaluz.net>
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:10:12PM -0600, Gerardo Amaya stood up and spoke: > I'm a newbie a CVSup so this may sound trivial > If I only do a CVSup to ports-x11 like this > > ports-x11 release=cvs > > It will be enough to have all my new collection > or do I need to "make install" something else CVSupping only updates your ports skeleton. In order to actually take advantage of any new versions of software, you will have to update the appropriate ports. Imagine you update ports-x11, as you said above. That means that CVSup will fetch the new skeleton files for the latest version of all x11 programs. For the X11 port itself, this would be 4.1.0. If your system currently runs 4.0.3, for example, a simply CVSup will *not* automatically make you get 4.1.0 installed on your system! In order to get the new version actually installed, you'd first delete the old one (pkg_delete) and then fetch, build and install the new one (by going to, for example, /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and doing "make" and "make install in there). More on dealing with CVSup and ports can be found in the handbook, either on your local machine at /usr/share/doc/handbook or http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ Hope that helps Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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