From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 31 21:29:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (hutch-893.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482E337B403 for ; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 21:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark9.vladsempire.net (mark9.vladsempire.net [10.0.0.97]) by mark9.vladsempire.net (Postfix) with SMTP id A2DE9E3; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:47:46 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Josh Paetzel To: David Leimbach , Bsd Newbie , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay... what exactly does cvs do? Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:49:25 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010801012349.32631.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> <01073122183800.00454@mutt.home.net> In-Reply-To: <01073122183800.00454@mutt.home.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01073122492509.00282@mark9.vladsempire.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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