From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 23 6:41:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A458137B419 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 06:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020223144122.XPSH1214.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:41:22 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1NEfLw22482; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 06:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 06:41:21 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Cliff Sarginson Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local CVS repository, the final frontier Message-ID: <20020223064121.G16048@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020223134033.GA13138@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020223134033.GA13138@raggedclown.net>; from csfbsd@raggedclown.net on Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:40:33PM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 02:40:33PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Hi, > Ok..updating src from my local network repository, no problem > But what command do I give to 'cvs' to update the /usr/ports > collection from the network repository (which is updated nightly). > I have spent all morning, thinking and trying and I am damned if > I can get it to work a la cvsupit (i.e. update changed ports). > I realise that ports is not under cvs as such, is there some > magic to get it to just replace older files with newer ones. > Or do I need to write a find script..whatever ? I'm not sure I understand. The ports are under CVS control just as much as any other part of FreeBSD. You say you have a local repository? Why not just cvsup(1) the ports (if you are not already) and just use cvs(1) the same way? -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message