From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 13:49:46 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8D315A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:49:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from odhiambo@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BAC8FC17 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:49:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id s9so12448578iec.13 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:49:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=KtWI35uXHZOpRz9dkCXoZY8Aalh6jSKLHyvbjNz1hqU=; b=SOz/Kl0tSIUgVU4zabHZvx5x8Tt/Lh7VpOPYhHU/Ius7dyiXk82YwRepALljXSb80O 9SJz+KvEvNf5uQYbTYyH/nw1/GGhVMQL8jLYcH2OYrlCLfm3AWSGYRfGDqU2KR8qKIz2 cam0pNrVvXqws6tMehrpIO7mmO3O7FRn760z89b2nYfoHACTJYzDGKNNBGEypT0FkzJU mfKDI3eXRyMuerwoVfXlU/aDak51BKoc8hCxyavVC9Rr3asm1unfMLFI9mUXuqafWuPD wauXgkJDqbwiTzkTToDdUP2dD9ym4R/imwKLc5x/LNTCvZavePTh+8az2IOWkLxuGInB +5Rw== Received: by 10.50.180.133 with SMTP id do5mr13875440igc.2.1353937785513; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:49:45 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.60.6 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2012 05:49:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50B36500.7040308@tundraware.com> References: <50B2A57A.3050500@tundraware.com> <50B2A8D8.90301@FreeBSD.org> <50B2AA07.8090103@tundraware.com> <201211251856.40381.lumiwa@gmail.com> <50B2BEE1.9030903@tundraware.com> <50B31AAB.6000903@FreeBSD.org> <50B36500.7040308@tundraware.com> From: Odhiambo Washington Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:49:05 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated? To: Tim Daneliuk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:49:46 -0000 On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 11/26/2012 01:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >>> I use portsnap fetch update and it works... >>>> >>> >>> Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. >>> >>> >> Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been >> running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received >> any updates to your ports tree, ever. >> >> This is all explained quite clearly in the portsnap(8) man page. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> >> > I just switched from csup last week and am still learning the ropes. > > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I replaced my csup cron entry with the following: portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update Initially I just had `csup -z -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/9.x-ports` where 9.x-ports was an edited version of ports-supfile. Now I have an /etc/portsnap.con with the equivalent edits from my 9.x-ports Is this how best to do it? And now I need to find an alternative to handle the src updates using svn or something... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.