Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:47:35 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@ferrarishields.com> To: <devnull@plugthebox.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports Message-ID: <038801c62116$a480a810$0599460a@dan> References: <1138124395.3877.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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> Hello,
> I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list
> of
> the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing
> any
> package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no,
> How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages?
Welcome to FreeBSD!
In FreeBSD, we use the CVS system to keep the ports tree up to date. You
can use Ananymous CVS, CVSup, or Portsnap to keep your ports collection
up to date.
More info can be found in the Handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/portsnap.html
Personally, I use CVSup. Here's a Cheat Sheet on how to set it up (for
both FBSD sources and ports tree):
http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi?cvsup
~Dan
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