From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 8 15:39:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BA716A4D0 for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:39:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at (lilzmailso02.liwest.at [212.33.55.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C32F43D4C for ; Tue, 8 Jun 2004 15:39:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm217-96.liwest.at ([81.10.217.96]) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1BXihJ-0005TN-28; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 17:39:33 +0200 From: Daniela To: Kris Kennaway Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:32:13 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <6.0.1.1.0.20040607102435.02945ae8@209.132.1.30> <200406072101.15542.dgw@liwest.at> <20040608004545.GA57836@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040608004545.GA57836@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200406081632.13515.dgw@liwest.at> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Tim Traver cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: port upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dgw@liwest.at List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2004 15:39:47 -0000 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