From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 20 09:10:09 2005 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 C21DC16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:10:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBE6143D4C for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:10:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from work@ashleymoran.me.uk) Received: from aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050920091007.EOTK9239.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:10:07 +0100 Received: from jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawhq.com ([213.106.224.113]) by aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050920091007.QTED6183.aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawhq.com> for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:10:07 +0100 X-Filtered-With-Copfilter: Version 0.1.0beta11 (ProxSMTP 1.2.1) X-Copfilter-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.86.2/1090 - Mon Sep 19 22:29:31 2005 X-Copfilter: Client is part of our network, skipped SpamAssassin Received: from [192.168.0.181] ([192.168.0.181]) by jigsaw-sbs02.jigsawhq.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:09:05 +0100 Message-ID: <432FD1B0.1000901@ashleymoran.me.uk> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:09:04 +0100 From: Ashley Moran User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <14804094.1127206352804.JavaMail.root@pswm18.cp.tin.it> In-Reply-To: <14804094.1127206352804.JavaMail.root@pswm18.cp.tin.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Sep 2005 09:09:05.0225 (UTC) FILETIME=[F33F6390:01C5BDC2] Subject: Re: portsdb & portsnap 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, 20 Sep 2005 09:10:09 -0000 Vittorio wrote: > I'm having a go at using portsnap on my fbsd 5.4 notebook instead of > cvsup to update the ports. With the latter under the /usr/ports dir I > issue "make update" and "portsdb -uU" and finally "portupgrade -arR". > Now, using portsnap it seems to me that after "update" the program > itself refreshes the db. In fact if I issue "portversion -l "<" " a > list of upgradable packages pops up. Therefore I'm concluding that > after portsnap fetch, update, there's no need for a "portsdb -uU". > Am > I right or missing something (which is actually my feeling!)? > Ciao > Vittorio portsdb -u updates the ports database, but this is done whenever you access the db anyway (running portversion will do this) portsdb -U updates the index, but that portsnap takes care of that I've never needed to do this with portsnap- I'm pretty sure it's redundant. Ashley