From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jul 17 3:34:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from kalaid.f2f.com.ua (kalaid.f2f.com.ua [62.149.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ECBB37B403 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 03:34:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.uic-in.net (root@[212.35.189.4]) by kalaid.f2f.com.ua (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6HAZtb19977; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:35:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vega.vega.com (das0-l27.uic-in.net [212.35.189.154]) by mail.uic-in.net (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6HAYG212266; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:34:17 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6HAXUD56881; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:33:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3B541487.37C8D01A@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:33:44 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "R. Lahaye" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: scigraphica-0.7.0 References: <3B531569.2CD5F82B@users.sourceforge.net> <3B53D914.F11E911A@FreeBSD.org> <3B53DFF1.F6F775D5@users.sourceforge.net> <3B540B98.DCE215A9@FreeBSD.org> <3B54115C.6E8CF1B2@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "R. Lahaye" wrote: > Maxim, > > Thanks for your throrough explanation. That's exactly what I need to find my > feet in FreeBSD world. > I actually heard about cvsup last week (I'm running FreeBSD since 10 days now), > I tried it, but screwed up my system files. As a result I could not comile > my kernel anymore. I was so confused that I reinstalled from scratch @!(#. > > So allow me to ask a few more details on this particular cvsup, since I don't > want to create the same mess once again: > > > Actually you can use cvsup to update your ports tree to the latest version. > > This is pretty straightforward: > > 1. Install cvsup (cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin ; make install clean). > > 2. Create the following file (ports-supfile): > > *default host=cvsup10.freebsd.org > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default base=/usr > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > *default compress > > ports-all > > 3. Connect to the Internet if necessary and run: > > # cvsup -L2 ports-cupfile > > ===> should that be "ports-supfile" (c -> s). If not, I'm confused. You are correct - it was tyop. ;) > In a nutshell once again: > > I create a file "/some/directory/ports-supfile", > add the above lines in it. Then call > > # cvsup -L2 /some/directory/ports-supfile > > Is that 100 percent save? Yes, it is safe. This should not touch any source or system files - only update content of /usr/ports. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message