Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:18:38 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimbacd@bellsouth.net> To: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay... what exactly does cvs do? Message-ID: <01073122183800.00454@mutt.home.net> In-Reply-To: <20010801012349.32631.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010801012349.32631.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tuesday 31 July 2001 20:23, Bsd Newbie wrote: > After reading a bit about cvs and listening to what > people said about it, I got the impression that it > updates everything in the ports directory. > You mean cvsup. CVSup and CVS are NOT the same. > I run cvsup twice a week, so I thought I'd have the > latest updates. > The question isn't do you run it... its how do you run it. With what options. > Last night I tried install mozilla and when I did a > 'make clean && make && make install' the installation > started downloading an older version of mozilla. > What version 9.2 is latest. > What am I doing wrong? > > I also did a 'make world' and after I did that typing > 'uname -v' gives the following: > > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC > Where did you do make world? Why did you do make world? There are documents about updating ports online. Check www.freebsd.org and in the FreeBSD Handbook that should be installed in your system. > I thought it rebuilt everything... if it did, wouldn't > it give a more recent build date? > Its difficult to tell what exactly it is you are doing... Do you just want to update ports? > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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