Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:07:49 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cronjob Cvsup -> What? Message-ID: <201301271007.49978.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <5104F78B.8050408@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20130127001805.97F0119B@hub.freebsd.org> <5104F78B.8050408@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sunday 27 Jan 2013 09:46:51 Matthew Seaman wrote: > to get yourself a portsnap-ready copy of the ports tree. You only need > to do that once, but you should move aside any pre-existing copy of > /usr/ports obtained by any means other than portsnap(8) before you do > (but keep anything under /usr/ports/distfiles and maybe > /usr/ports/packages). Something like: > > cd /usr > mv ports ports.old > mkdir ports > mv ports.old/distfiles ports/distfiles > mv ports.old/packages ports/packages > portsnap fetch extract > > Although this may be complicated if any of /usr/ports, > /usr/ports/distfiles or /usr/ports/packages are on a separate partition > or ZFS. I suppose the best approach with ZFS would be to make a snapshot immediately prior to running portsnap. -- Mike Clarke
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