From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 23 14:41:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 962CB37B417 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:41:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16ekrP-0005O2-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:41:43 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id D789B13040 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:41:42 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id 4ECD122595; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:41:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:41:42 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Local CVS repository, the final frontier Message-ID: <20020223224142.GA1242@raggedclown.net> References: <20020223134033.GA13138@raggedclown.net> <20020223064121.G16048@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020223064121.G16048@blossom.cjclark.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 06:41:21AM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > 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? Because I am dumb, d.u.m.b.... *Sigh*, I made errm, a small but significant mistake. I will just slink in a corner for a while... Maybe I should have trained to be a lion-tamer after all. Sorry for time wasted. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message