From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 11:41:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EE837B43C for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@ptavv.es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f4BIfHc19073; Fri, 11 May 2001 11:41:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105111841.f4BIfHc19073@ptavv.es.net> To: "Caleb Walker" Cc: "Vander Francisco" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: update ports ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 11 May 2001 11:25:51 PDT." <004101c0da47$cf4bfa10$92115ea5@whl117671isd> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:41:17 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: "Caleb Walker" > Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 11:25:51 -0700 > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > You need to install cvsup from thep ports. This usually is good in all > ports collections(I may be wrong though) and then goto > /usr/share/examples/cvsup and copy ports-supfile somwhere(I usually copy to > my home dir) and read it because there are instructions and modify it so > that the file has the correct info mainly for server Name and such. While this advise is correct, I would suggest that you to install the cvsup-bin. Building cvsup requires building modula-3 which a a LOT of overhead. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message