From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 2:37:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sylgen.deep-ocean.net (sylgen.deep-ocean.net [195.6.237.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE64D37B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 02:37:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olive@deep-ocean.net) Received: by sylgen.deep-ocean.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9817B2332; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:34:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 11:34:23 +0100 From: Olivier Cortes To: "Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easiest way to update all port files Message-ID: <20010309113423.C1768@sylgen.deep-ocean.net> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Cortes , "Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from G.Houben@fontys.nl on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:25:49AM +0100 Organization: Deep-Ocean Network X-URL: http://www.deep-ocean.net/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i think it has been discussed many times, but here is what i use: i copied /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to /usr/ports i tweaked it in order to point to the right cvsup server (for me it's cvsup.fr.freebsd.org) i commented chinese, vietnamese and others (i don't need them), and ports-all. i uncommented ports-base and ports groups that i needed, and sometimes i type 'cvsup ports-supfile' in my xterm as 'su'. i know you can cron cvsup (with something like -g -L 2 as options), and there also a way to type 'make update' in /usr/ports, but i didn't search in that last direction. at home i cvsup once a while, and at work i cron (i tried to build a cvsup mirror for my 6 freebsd servers, but i don't know by now if it works or not, time is missing). regards, olivier On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:25:49AM +0100, Houben,G.J.J. (Geert) wrote: > Hi, > > What is the easiest way to update all files in /usr/ports ? > So that all ports I install use the newest version available. > > Kind regards, > > Geert Houben > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > --- Olivier Cortes free software admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message