Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:32:13 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: port upgrades Message-ID: <200406081632.13515.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <20040608004545.GA57836@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040607102435.02945ae8@209.132.1.30> <200406072101.15542.dgw@liwest.at> <20040608004545.GA57836@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Tuesday 08 June 2004 00:45, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:01:15PM +0000, Daniela wrote: > > On Monday 07 June 2004 19:35, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 07:14:34PM +0000, Daniela wrote: > > > > On Monday 07 June 2004 17:28, Tim Traver wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > Is there a way to do a quick update of a particular port > > > > > directory ??? I don't necessarily want to do the portupgrade, but > > > > > just get the latest port files for a particular port. > > > > > Right now, if i want to make sure the ports are up to date, I > > > > > have to use sysinstall to download the entire port collection, > > > > > which takes forever... > > > > > Am I missing a quick utility to just check and make sure I have > > > > > the latest port files for one at a time ? > > > > > > > > You could use CVSup to update just the directories you want, and you > > > > can also put this into the system crontab to periodically run it. > > > > That's pretty convenient. > > > > > > You _will_ run into problems if you only update parts of the ports > > > collection. > > > > Well, I didn't mean upgrading of just one or two directories, but rather > > skipping directories such as the japanese ports if you don't speak > > japanese. Almost no ports depend on things in language-specific > > directories (at least not the ones I have installed). > > OK, but you still can't do some things like build an index because > some things do still depend on those ports you're not upgrading. While we're on the subject, how do you build an index of the binary packages you have? I needed this a long time ago, when I created a custom FreeBSD installation CD-ROM, and I thought shellscript and hand-editing were the only ways to do it. Recursive fetching was a pain too, even with portupgrade. How do you gurus solve this? Daniela
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