Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 21:59:40 +1100 From: eirvine <eirvine@tpgi.com.au> To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <patrick@mip.co.za> Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvsup of ports, then what? Message-ID: <3BF4F19C.A5CA20C6@tpgi.com.au> References: <NDBBIMKICMDGDMNOOCAIEEKIDOAA.patrick@mip.co.za>
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Hi Patrick, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > > Ok, thanks to many of you for helping me get cvsup on the STABLE branch > running!!! > > It's so "kewl" to be so up to date! (Sorry, these young techies running > around these days are having a bad influence on my vocabulary :) > > Anyway, I want to use cvsup to keep up with the ports I am using too. I > understand that ports are effectively CURRENT, not STABLE, that's OK. I've > also run cvsup on the ports-all collection, and got a whole update of the > ports tree. So, the cvsup bit is done - no problem. > > But, what now? > > I have a number (15 or so) of packages/ports installed. Do I need to run > "make" for each of my ports again? Yes - but most of us don't bother unless an app is broken or comes out with a feature we need. > Or is there something simpler that will know which ports I have > installed and do them all together for me? Also, ^^^^^^^^^ Yes ^^^^^^^ No man pkg_info > mergemaster is a beauty when making the world - is there anything similar > for the ports? No. Eddie. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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