From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 21:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F8A37B407 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jonc by itouchnz.itouch with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15gIp6-0008eS-00; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:37:28 +1200 Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:37:28 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Rob B Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General questions Message-ID: <20010910163728.B31187@itouchnz.itouch> References: <00a801c139b0$7ba19960$0b64a8c0@becca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00a801c139b0$7ba19960$0b64a8c0@becca>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:24:28PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:24:28PM +1000, Rob B wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first running install of FreeBSD, so be gentle :) > > I have 4.3 RELEASE running on a DEC Alpha, and I'm trying to install some of > the ports (mutt, postfix etc). I seem to be getting old versions of the > software that aren't on the servers anymore. I am aware that CVSup will > update the ports tree, but doesn't that also update the rest of the system? > Can I make CVSup only retrieve the ports? Yes you can. Check out /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile. -- Jonathan Chen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by" - Douglas Adams To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message