From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Mar 22 03:58:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA24853 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 03:58:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (root@gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA24845 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 03:58:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from duffner.konstanz.netsurf.de (surf86.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.86]) by gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA16258; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:58:21 +0100 Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:27:39 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: Any tips for updating? To: Omar Eljumaily cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199803201924.LAA24385@unx1.omnicode.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.42] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri 20 Mar, Omar Eljumaily wrote: > Hi, > I'm running version 2.2.2 and am contemplating > updating to the latest release (2.2.5?). Anybody done > that and have any tips? I really don't understand the > CVS repository system. Anybody have any links that explain > how that works (in simple terms)? There is a program on the ftp/www-site : Cvsupit.tgz (or similar). Check the newsflash-section on the web-site and look some months/weeks back. If you have it, do a pkg_add %name_of_the_tgz% and follow the instructions. Note the shell-command it says to use to start it somewhere. It was really, honestly *dead-easy*. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message