From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 5 15:16:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA22905 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:16:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phluffy.fks.bt (net25-cust202.pdx.wantweb.net [24.236.25.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA22899 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:16:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Received: from localhost (myke@localhost) by phluffy.fks.bt (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01773; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:16:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myke@ees.com) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:16:13 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Holling X-Sender: myke@phluffy.fks.bt To: kjh cc: Freebsd-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re-phrase of simple (?dumb) q. about ports In-Reply-To: <001301be20a4$17d34640$0405a8c0@p400> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So, my question: How do I cvsup a "stable" ports collection to go with my > 2.2.8-STABLE system? Or doesn't it matter, or do I have to just ftp the > port-stable directories, or ??? I can't find the answer to this in the > handbook, etc. Thanks for your time! There is only one ports collection that is used for all versions of FreeBSD. The other directories are just snapshots of the ports tree when the release was made. This is documented somewhere, maybe in the cvsup tutorial? - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message