Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:06:43 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updated "world" to CURRENT, how to update ports to CURRENT? Message-ID: <20090324120643.5fcd1f87@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20090324102110.GA4829@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090324095431.GA4288@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20090324100714.GA451@muon.cran.org.uk> <20090324102110.GA4829@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:10 +0100 Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El d=EDa Tuesday, March 24, 2009 a las 10:07:14AM +0000, Bruce Cran > escribi=F3: >=20 > > The ports tree isn't versioned like /usr/src; 'portsnap fetch' will > > always fetch the latest copy from cvs mainline, and the only way to > > go back to a branch (e.g RELENG_5_5_0) is by using csup, which you > > would only really want to do if you're using a release of FreeBSD > > which has gone out of support, such as 5.x. >=20 > What made me worry about this was reading >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html >=20 > The Ports Collection supports the latest release on the > FreeBSD-CURRENT and FreeBSD-STABLE branches.... You should still rebuild all your ports, since you have crossed a major version boundary.=20
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