From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 14:36: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC70737BA0A for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13HC0R-0004iF-00; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:12:51 +0100 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13HC0R-0002Ui-00; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:12:51 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 22:12:51 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Toma Vailikit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating /usr/ports Message-ID: <20000725221251.P28657@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <000901bff6a8$f5275f00$4d20d93f@toma> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <000901bff6a8$f5275f00$4d20d93f@toma> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Toma Vailikit wrote: > The only real complaint I have is installing from /usr/ports. When > things get updated it breaks on the install. How do I update the > /usr/ports structure so things don't break during the file gets and > installs because my side is looking for "older" versions which don't > exist on remote systems anymore? Well, you don't make your problem very clear. If you keep your /usr/ports directory up-to-date with CVSup, you should rarely see these problems though. Please check then Handbook section about CVSup for more details, or look at the CVSup files under /usr/share/examples/cvsup. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D FreeBSD Documentation Project / To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message