Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 21:07:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: cstankevitz@toyon.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating the ports collection Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910062055420.70379@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <200910070051.n970pajx012236@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <4ACBC82C.3030502@toyon.com> <200910070051.n970pajx012236@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi Chris, > >> The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for >> obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. >> >> Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but >> only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. >> >> Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to >> obtain it? > > I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup; it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment. > Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: > > *default tag=. > *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > ports-all I do the same, and run csup as: csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports ...where /etc/supfile.ports is pretty much as above. In that case, it doesn't matter what "default host" is set to, since the -h option to csup overrides the default. The '-c us' part applies to me, but it might not for you; see the man page. -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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