From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 8 17:10:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2304E37B419 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8E4A28CB5; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:10:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:10:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: Charles Burns , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to not update non-English ports/source [FAQ request] In-Reply-To: <1018306823.319.99.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: <20020408200053.M83584-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 8 Apr 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:57, Charles Burns wrote: > > Is there a way to not update the non-English portions of FreeBSD, such as several areas of the ports collection, while doing a CVSup? It doesn't seem to add much time to the updating process, but it wastes the CVS server's bandwidth that could be better utilized serving someone else. > Checkout the handbooks's cvsup section: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > Pay close attention to subsection 6.3.1 on the refuse file. > Joe [PGP Key: http://www.marucscom.com/pgp.asc] Is there a [simple, plebian] write-up someplace on the web that explains the relative, subtle, flavour variations between: pkg_add -rf, portupgrade -R, cvsup, tarballing, {manually ftp'ing a directory}, and... ?? My notion is that some of the commands I mentioned just (to paraphrase) "update local port tree(s)/source but then stop" while others "update local source then install" and yet still others "just go get the pre-fab binary and add it locally as a package using defaults." Yes? From what I've gandered so far, there is no simple way (once the user finds an ftp address such as ftp.somewhere.org/pub/source/somecommand/Makefile with other files and subdirectories in there with Makefile) to mirror that "ports tree" (word choice?) to the local box. Or is that cvsup after all? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message