Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:49:25 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: David Leimbach <leimbacd@bellsouth.net>, Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay... what exactly does cvs do? Message-ID: <01073122492509.00282@mark9.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <01073122183800.00454@mutt.home.net> References: <20010801012349.32631.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> <01073122183800.00454@mutt.home.net>
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On Tuesday 31 July 2001 22:18, David Leimbach wrote: > 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. > Remeber that the latest version of the ports tree isn't always the absolute latest release of the software. I think that is where the confusion is. Josh > > 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? > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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