From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 16 10:17: 9 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 5AF4D37B719 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:17:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 93444 invoked by uid 100); 16 Mar 2001 18:17:05 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15026.22689.760453.248389@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:17:05 -0600 To: Christopher Farley Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Subject: Re: Keeping updated port collection In-Reply-To: <91191045@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 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 Christopher Farley types: > 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. The easy way is to pull the appropriate lines from /etc/defaults/make.conf, and put them in /etc/make.conf. Them "make update" in either /usr/src or /usr/ports will update the ports tree. The inevitable next question - "How do I update the installed packages" is answered in the FAQ at . 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