From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 03:31:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B53037B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 03:31:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-2.hut.fi (smtp-2.hut.fi [130.233.228.92]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04ECC43FA3 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 03:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhuvinen@lyta.hut.fi) Received: from lyta.hut.fi (lyta.hut.fi [130.233.228.21]) by smtp-2.hut.fi (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4PAVLY4010246 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 13:31:21 +0300 Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 13:31:21 +0300 (EET DST) From: Jukka Huvinen To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.3(snapshot 20030212) (smtp-2.hut.fi) X-DCC-HUTCC-Metrics: smtp-2.hut.fi 1165; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Subject: Re: Updating ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 10:31:24 -0000 On Sun, 25 May 2003, clayton rollins wrote: > >I have only a modem connection and I would like to avoid updating > >everything and would like to stay within stable-branch. > > > > If you use cvsup with compression, it shouldn't be too big to just get the > ports tree. (I think it was just over 30 megs when I did it...) Yes, the tree is not a problem, but the ports are. XFree + gnome2 are almost everything. And all depends on others... I updated to the "current" ports tree also, but some of them are not even available as a package. Also portupgrade used a download path .../stable_4_8 ... or similar and did not find the packages. Getting them manually was possible, but I ended up with partial upgrade and nonfunctional X. Something went wrong. pkg_delete -a and reinstall restored it back to 4.8... BTW, there are a package-directory current-4 or stable-4 in ftp.freebsd.org. I wonder why there would not be a ports tree available for it. I could give a try with manual update according to that directory versions. -- Jukka