Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:43:18 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Subject: Re: portsnap and portupgrade Message-ID: <20081218124318.09f16d42@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812181105160.2794@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812181105160.2794@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> wrote: > ( decompress to /usr/ports ) > # portsnap extract > > ( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has > a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. ) You need the extract so that the tree is exactly matched to the snapshot and the correct metadata is created, it's installing the tree from disk that's not needed. > In root /etc/crontab, shedule daily updates of /var/db/portsnap : > 0 3 * * * root /usr/sbin/portsnap cron > >... > b. For every future upgrade of gv (using portupgrade): > b.1. ( update ports collection ) > # portsnap update > ... > b.5. do the port upgrade > # portupgrade -R gv > > b.6. install the updated version of ghostview > # cd /usr/ports/print/gv > # make install clean You don't need the last step, that's what portupgrade does. For the most part it's better to bring all you ports up-to date if you can, rather than doing it piecemeal.
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