From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 13:52:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ib.rc.vix.com (ib.rc.vix.com [204.152.187.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70EA5152EE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:52:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Peter_Losher@iengines.com) Received: from bb.rc.vix.com (bb.rc.vix.com [204.152.187.11]) by ib.rc.vix.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) via ESMTP id NAA21545; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:52:29 -0800 (PST) env-from (Peter_Losher@iengines.com) Received: from localhost (plosher@localhost) by bb.rc.vix.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) via ESMTP id NAA16123; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:52:29 -0800 (PST) env-from (Peter_Losher@iengines.com) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:52:29 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Losher To: "Goodman, David" Cc: "Free BSD Questions List (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Keeping ports up to date In-Reply-To: <10AC0E2910DBD211BC2B0090274604A901369407@exchange-92.wfg.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Goodman, David wrote: > Is there a massive tarball anywhere I could download and unpack in place? Yes, at: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports.tar.gz > I am not familiar with CVSUP, but I'm willing to learn. Since you are on a v3.1 system, it will take a while to update via CVSUP the first time, but if you update once or twice a week after that, it should be bearable (and preferable over the tarball, IMO) Best Wishes - Peter ___________________________________________________________________________ Peter Losher | System Administrator | Internet Engines, Inc. plosher@iengines.com | | www.iengines.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message