From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 14:14:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 565C916A4B3 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC4C43FAF for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 14:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.212]) by smtp.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:05:16 -0500 Message-ID: <3F7208EE.8060704@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:13:18 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Pratt, Benjamin E." References: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718118@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <4F752E686C8E04449DCB9FA7C3BD9674718118@EXCHANGE.campus.stcloudstate.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Sep 2003 21:05:18.0463 (UTC) FILETIME=[8EFAE0F0:01C382DF] cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portage tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:14:05 -0000 >Is there any way to update the /usr/ports/* area on my system. > >Ben > > Yes. Checkout the email you quoted. cvsup-without-gui should be available via /stand/sysinstall, and a sample supfile for the ports tree is in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/. HTH, KDK