Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:17:57 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updated "world" to CURRENT, how to update ports to CURRENT? Message-ID: <20090324121757.GA8445@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20090324120643.5fcd1f87@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20090324095431.GA4288@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20090324100714.GA451@muon.cran.org.uk> <20090324102110.GA4829@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20090324120643.5fcd1f87@gumby.homeunix.com>
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El día Tuesday, March 24, 2009 a las 12:06:43PM +0000, RW escribió: > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:21:10 +0100 > Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > > El día Tuesday, March 24, 2009 a las 10:07:14AM +0000, Bruce Cran > > escribió: > > > > > 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. > > > > What made me worry about this was reading > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html > > > > 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. Yes, of course I should do that; but this is a clean system; I've just installe 70R and CVS updated to CURRENT; no packages have been in /var/db/pkg; I now CVS check'ed out /usr/ports and will build what I need. matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/
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