Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:38:33 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-current-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: free bsd <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>, Riemer Palstra <riemer@palstra.com> Subject: Re: keep ports updated Message-ID: <443b8swmee.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20061109155745.2F9764506A@ptavv.es.net> (Kevin Oberman's message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:57:45 -0800") References: <20061109155745.2F9764506A@ptavv.es.net>
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> writes: > I don't know about portsnap, if you use csup (V6.1 or newer) or cvsup, > you should delete your ports tree first! (rm -rf /usr/ports/*). Not necessarily; there are other ways to handle the situation. > These programs keep a record of what files have been updated and their > versions and they will not know about any files already in your ports > tree but no longer in CVS. This can leave you system with orphans that > might include patch files which might cause builds to fail, or worse, > cause apps to mis-behave. You can use a lot less bandwidth by getting the bookkeeping correct first, and then updating. In that case, it will all work properly. http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#adopt
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