From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 26 13:45:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB6A616A4CE for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:45:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from yggdrasil.interstroom.nl (yggdrasil.interstroom.nl [80.85.129.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E76843D54 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:45:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from o.greve@axis.nl) Received: from ip102-211.introweb.nl ([80.65.102.211] helo=sjees) by yggdrasil with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CXgPV-0004eW-00; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:45:17 +0100 From: "Olaf Greve" To: Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:45:14 +0100 Message-ID: <005501c4d3be$2865be60$1e01a8c0@sjees> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.2.20041125093752.00c0a358@cheyenne.wixb.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2742.200 X-MailScanner-Information: Interstroom virusscan, please e-mail helpdesk@interstroom.nl for more information X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: Subject: Updating packages list (using cvsup?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:45:22 -0000 Hi all, I was wondering about a thingy. Whenever I use sysinstall to add a package, the list seems to be constantly the same (i.e. often outdated), whereas more recent versions should be available of several of the packages. Of course I can manually d/l the packages and if necessary compile them and install them, but I have also heard of the possibility of using cvsup to automatically update the packages tree. Now, I have installed cvsup, and I quickly browsed over the man pages (I have to admit that I have not yet been able to spend much time on this), but I was wondering if this is really the best way to go. Sure, it does automatically update collections, etc., but is this really the handiest tool out there for this particular task? If not, can anyone please name me an alternative (approach)? If it is, OTOH, can anyone please give me some quick pointers for setting this up correctly, and/or point me to a page where this process is explained. Thanks in advance, and cheers! Olafo