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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 11:55:10 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        John LeMay <jlemay@njmc.com>, freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with compiling ports
Message-ID:  <p0602049bbc3c48026376@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <401684EA.6080701@njmc.com>
References:  <40156661.4070708@njmc.com> <4273990816.1075146026@mccaffrey.phoenix.volant.org> <20040127065508.GA55455@xor.obsecurity.org> <401684EA.6080701@njmc.com>

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At 10:34 AM -0500 1/27/04, John LeMay wrote:
>
>Thanks for all the tips! I have one question though after
>reading the update section in the handbook. Does CVSup download
>all of the sources or just the directory structure and make
>files?

It's the skeleton structure for all the ports, including
makefiles, and INDEX, and information on *where* to get
sources from.  You won't get sources for any individual
ports until you go and 'make' (or 'portupgrade') that port.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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