From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 7: 6:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nbrewer.com (sparge.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA3B37B71F for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 07:06:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@nbrewer.com) Received: by mail.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A81DD383055; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:06:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:06:22 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Daniel Mester Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping updated port collection Message-ID: <20010316090620.A5999@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , Daniel Mester , 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 DanielM@EverAd.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 11:19:01AM +0200 Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel Mester (DanielM@EverAd.com) wrote: > As i can see there's some ways: > 1. I can keep my 'ports' updated with CVS or something? (really > preferable way - i guess). You could use CVS or install /usr/ports/net/cvsup. It is very easy to upgrade your ports with CVSup. The syntax is 'cvsup supfile' where the supfile describes the working directory tree to be updated, in this case /usr/ports. Sample supfiles, including a ports-supfile, are in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. To get the ports supfile working, you need to edit the file and specify a cvsup server. There is good CVSup documentation, including a list of FreeBSD cvsup servers, at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message