From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 00:24:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8DF106564A for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:24:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D218FC17 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 00:24:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kcr1y-0007n7-Bj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:24:30 +0000 Received: from pool-141-156-180-91.esr.east.verizon.net ([141.156.180.91]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:24:30 +0000 Received: from nightrecon by pool-141-156-180-91.esr.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:24:30 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:26:59 -0400 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <51d7a5160809081441h6f952906ibea9d236a9c271dd@mail.gmail.com> <8d23ec860809081519l2bfb73fax8c82824c17a382bc@mail.gmail.com> <51d7a5160809081625o2856d25erf61e3c409c93ca9c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-141-156-180-91.esr.east.verizon.net Sender: news Subject: Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: nightrecon@verizon.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:24:33 -0000 perikillo wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html > > I supposes that "portsnap extract" have to run just once, latter u have > to > just run portsnap fetch && portsnap update? > > Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap? > > This is normal? This would not broke my tree? > > Right now I already run cvsup and is running portsdb -Uu, I will let u > know what happend, thanks!!! [snip] Unless you have a specific overriding reason to do -Uu you might want to try -uF instead. It's what I use and it's always worked. In fact, this is what I do to see if I need an upgrade: csup -L 2 ports && portsdb -uF && pkgdb -u && portversion But since I have never used portsnap don't really know anything about it. -Mike