From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 6 13:41:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDD416A4CE for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:41:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from calis.blacksun.org (calis.blacksun.org [216.254.108.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81E9743D2F for ; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@calis.blacksun.org) Received: by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9B81217082; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:44:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calis.blacksun.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A1BB17062; Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:44:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:44:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Don To: Remko Lodder In-Reply-To: <40731281.8020807@elvandar.org> Message-ID: <20040406164211.H29742@calis.blacksun.org> References: <40731281.8020807@elvandar.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Osmany Guirola Cruz Subject: Re: 5.2 to 5.greater X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 20:41:34 -0000 > using cvsup you can download the latest cvs branches from freebsd > and then update it from time to time or when security demands it ( a > must do ! :-) ) > > you can find it in /usr/ports/net/csvsup(-without-gui) If there is one program I would recommend you _NOT_ install from the ports tree then cvsup(without-gui) is it. Install the cvsup package (binary) and update your system. If you install it from the ports tree then you will spend quite some time installing dependencies. When you get done you will end up having installed cvsup as well as modula-3 and a ton of other packages you probably do not want. -Don