Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:10:57 +0200 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation sequence Message-ID: <20090821101057.GA69673@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be0908201829x439edcbas353b9e58bf238a5e@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0908201829x439edcbas353b9e58bf238a5e@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:29:26AM +0000, b. f. typed: > Lane Holcombe wrote: > > >Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: > > > >portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror > > > >You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will > >have a semi-authoritative mirror of all the source and ports for the > >whole dang FreeBSD development tree, that will maintain itself and be > >ready when you need it. > > It's good advice to make sure that you are using a base system and > ports tree that are up-to-date, or at least contemporaneous and from a > stable snapshot. But it seems to me to be overkill to ask someone who > is having trouble installing ports to mirror the FreeBSD repository. > Snapshots downloaded per the instructions in the FreeBSD Handbook > ought to be enough for most people. Besides, an uptodate portstree is no guarantee at all that all ports will compile and/or all dependencies will work. That's why there are periods of ports freeze before every RELEASE. On a desktop system, I tend to use binary packages only, coming with the release. Ruben
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