From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 20:35:39 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA26416A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:35:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0D4043D54 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:35:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from curtis@npc-usa.com) Received: (qmail 3194 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2004 20:35:39 -0000 Received: from dsl017-040-162.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO crab.npc-usa.com) ([69.17.40.162]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Aug 2004 20:35:39 -0000 Received: from [10.0.1.12] (OSX [10.0.1.12]) by crab.npc-usa.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2657.72) id R2R8ZV3W; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:35:22 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) In-Reply-To: <16682.20637.267060.345504@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Curtis Vaughan Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:35:37 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: Reinstalling, then upgrading X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 20:35:40 -0000 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