From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 6 13:37:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A457037B42C for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 26302 invoked by uid 100); 6 Apr 2001 20:37:43 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15054.10519.683627.747503@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:37:43 -0500 To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: Matthew King , Subject: Re: /usr/ports In-Reply-To: References: <15053.46036.717854.725166@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Schoolcraft types: > At Fri, 6 Apr 2001 it looks like Mike Meyer composed: > mwm->After you've installed the cvsup-bin port, add the following to > mwm->/etc/make.conf: > mwm-> > mwm->SUP_UPDATE= yes > mwm->SUPHOST= cvsup5.FreeBSD.org > mwm->SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup > mwm->SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 -P - > mwm->PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > mwm-> > mwm->changing the SUPHOST as appropriate. Then cd /usr/ports, and do "make > mwm->udpate". > mwm-> > > ......... I finally have to ask this. As one who was completely > happy with package management using /usr/ports, I see I'm going to > have to switch over to the cvs*. Is this covered well in the > handbook or is there any other sources of docs ? Um - the two are unrelated. Package management with /usr/ports works just like it always has, and should continue to do so. What I've described is a way to update /usr/ports, not the packages you've installed. Updating packages once you've updated ports is changing a lot these days. Then again, it used to be a major PITA , and still isn't as easy as it should be, so this is a good thing. > I know change is good but I still have drill bits that are 20 years > old and they work great, just keep them sharpened. ;> Change for the sake of change isn't good - unless you're using it to get people to buy upgrades they don't need :-). Improvements are good. You don't have to take advantage of those if you don't want to, just like you don't have to go out and buy the latest-n-greatest drill bits if you don't want to. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message