From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 18:47:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 EB3E216A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@ferrarishields.com) Received: from mail.ferrarishields.com (mail.ferrarishields.com [216.82.146.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8401543D58 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@ferrarishields.com) Received: from dan (dan [10.70.153.5]) by mail.ferrarishields.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 447B27302C; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:47:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <038801c62116$a480a810$0599460a@dan> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: , References: <1138124395.3877.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:47:35 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Cc: Subject: Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:47:15 -0000 > 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 -- FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/