From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 27 13:46:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1F2F16A403 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:46:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683A043D4C for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:46:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GdS16-0003CX-Ha for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:45:00 +0200 Received: from c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([24.147.85.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:45:00 +0200 Received: from jdarnold by c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:45:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jonathan Arnold Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:40:52 -0400 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <20061027000754.86183.qmail@web58305.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <200610262236.46586.lane@joeandlane.com> <4541F8AC.1030502@401.cx> <200610270753.14194.lane@joeandlane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-147-85-158.hsd1.ma.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060804) In-Reply-To: <200610270753.14194.lane@joeandlane.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: Ports collection issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:46:12 -0000 Lane wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 07:16, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: >> Lane wrote: >>> Adrian, >>> >>> Use /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and create a cvsupfile. You can >>> then selectively install src-all, src-contrib, ports-all and any of the >>> various ports sub-trees that you need (but stick with ports-all). >>> >>> cvsup will get the proper Makefiles and whatnot for you. >>> >>> Email me if you need help setting that up. >>> >>> lane >> I would recommend using csup instead of cvsup. >> It has fewer dependencies, is very lightweight and works very well >> if you just want to occasionally checkout ports or src. >> I believe that csup is also part of the basesystem in newer releases. >> >> -- >> R >> > OMG! > > I totally missed csup. Thanks for the tip! You might look into portsnap. I find it much easier and faster to use than c[v]sup: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a FreeBSD weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.