From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 12 17:57:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3946516A401 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:57:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (grnl-static-02-0046.dsl.iowatelecom.net [69.66.56.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA36E13C48A for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:57:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l3CHNvHP083599; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:23:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l3CHNv7N083598; Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:23:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:23:57 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: alex@schnarff.com Message-ID: <20070412172357.GD82155@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <20070412122954.493cajcveoko88ko@mail.schnarff.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="SFyWQ0h3ruR435lw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070412122954.493cajcveoko88ko@mail.schnarff.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:23:58 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using portsnap after sysinstall X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:57:30 -0000 --SFyWQ0h3ruR435lw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:29:54PM -0400, alex@schnarff.com wrote: > I'm a longtime OpenBSD user admin'ing my first FreeBSD box. During=20 > installation of the system (6.2-RELEASE), I saw the option to add the=20 > ports tree and did so, figuring it made sense to add at that point=20 > since I'd definitely be using it later. Unfortunatley, I've just now=20 > discovered -- after installing several ports from my sysinstall'd tree=20 > -- that this installed an old version of the ports free, from when this= =20 > version of FreeBSD was released. This is a problem because I need newer= =20 > versions of some of the ports than is currently available, and I'm not=20 > sure how to proceed. I really wish sysinstall would install a copy of ports created by portsnap and provide an option to install the associated working files. As things stand, I never install the ports collection from sysinstall because it takes forever and I just end up deleting it. > What I'd really like to be able to do is used portsnap, which seems=20 > like a great tool, but preserve all of the information about my=20 > existing packages. I have no idea if I can just wipe out my old=20 > /usr/ports and run "portsnap extract" (I've already run "portsnap=20 > fetch"), or if doing so would break my ports DB, dependencies, or=20 > something else I'm not familiar with. You can delete /usr/ports at any time without touching any installed packages. You may want to save /usr/ports/distfiles and if it exists /usr/ports/packages before removing /usr/ports. -- Brooks --SFyWQ0h3ruR435lw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGHmstXY6L6fI4GtQRAskPAJ98MB51Hal2QSWlZq0qA4vsTc8xTgCgvFqf WIhWkjy3Nes0eRLbvb4Tz4I= =Xmyf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SFyWQ0h3ruR435lw--