From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 14 23:56:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA17473 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:56:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vi.dyn.ml.org (1Cust71.tnt2.everett2.wa.da.uu.net [153.35.254.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA17456 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos@vi.dyn.ml.org) Received: from localhost (kosmos@localhost) by vi.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA28855 for ; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:28:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kosmos@vi.dyn.ml.org) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 23:28:24 -0800 (PST) From: Allan Reply-To: Allan To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how to cvsup ports-stable Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >How do I cvsup the latest -stable ports collection? I just did a fresh >install from some 2.2.5 CDs and a lot of the ports don't work (lynx and >netscape, for example). Unfortunately, the ports begin to evaporate not long after the last release. A cool role for cvsup is to use it just to keep current with ports. Make sure you have the cvsup utility, and make a script and a supfile. Run it every so often to update your ports files. ~/getports.sh (add a "-P-" switch if you are firewalled) --- #!/bin/sh sudo cvsup -L2 -g /etc/cvsupfile --- /etc/cvsupfile: --- # $Id: stable-supfile,v 1.12 1997/10/02 00:01:35 jkh Exp $ *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_2_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix compress ports-all tag=. --- If you have a firewall, edit: /usr/share/mk/bsd.port.mk and find this line: FETCH_CMD?= /usr/bin/fetch Add a "-P" for passive mode to enable port-building: FETCH_CMD?= /usr/bin/fetch -P --Allan kosmos@vi.dyn.ml.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message