Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:35:37 -0700 From: Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading Message-ID: <FDBEC586-F543-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> In-Reply-To: <16682.20637.267060.345504@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <C74CE336-F2EC-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <200408231351.44084.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <117C865A-F52E-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <200408231410.11784.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <70F13D40-F532-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <16682.20637.267060.345504@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On 23 Aug, 2004, at 13:16, Robert Huff wrote: > > Curtis Vaughan writes: > >> Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know >> something about the following. >> It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire >> repository of packages for FreeBSD. Is that really what one has >> to do to perform an upgrade? > > Cvsup updates what you tell it to update - if you ask > correctly, as little as a single file. > >> It seems like what you would need >> to do is merely upgrade those packages necessary for the latest >> kernel, > > "world". > >> then upgrade the kernel, > > "kernel". > >> then upgrade all installed >> packages. (Packages meaning ports, right?) > > "ports". > And that's right, except .... > Once you've installed the ports tree (say from CD) do one run > of cvsup to bring the tree up to date. This may be a fairly large > update, but will not be everything because some ports haven't > changed in years. > Afterwards, you can run another update once a week, or once a > month. (Once a month is stretching it, because some popular ports > get updated very frequently.) > If there are parts of the ports tree you don't care about > (e.g. vietnamese or mbone) there are ways to tell cvsup to ignore > that entire sub-tree. > > Did this answer your question? (And if not, can you be more > specific?) > > > Robert Huff I think so for now. Thanks! Curtis
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