Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 13:31:21 +0300 (EET DST) From: Jukka Huvinen <jhuvinen@cc.hut.fi> To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating ports Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.50.0305251321550.161420-100000@lyta.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F245uOPKxko4rT0002f247@hotmail.com> References: <Sea1-F245uOPKxko4rT0002f247@hotmail.com>
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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
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