From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 8:49:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from siafu.iconnect.co.ke (upagraha.iconnect.co.ke [209.198.248.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC99237B503 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:49:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from [64.110.74.50] (helo=poeza.iconnect.co.ke) by siafu.iconnect.co.ke with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14SM8l-000DUr-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:47:52 +0300 Received: from wash by poeza.iconnect.co.ke with local (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14SM9t-000AVE-00; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:49:01 +0300 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:49:01 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: "Christopher W. Aiken" Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Ports Tree Update Message-ID: <20010212194901.A40352@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , "Christopher W. Aiken" , FBSD-Q References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "Christopher W. Aiken" on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:43:12AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD poeza.iconnect.co.ke 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-Location: Mombasa, KE, East Africa Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Christopher W. Aiken [20010212 19:44]: writing on = the subject 'Ports Tree Update' Christopher> I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE and would like to update Christopher> my ports tree. I was going to do: Christopher>=20 Christopher> 1) download new ports.tar.gz from ftp.freebsd.org Christopher> 2) rm -rf /usr/ports Christopher> 3) cd /usr; tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz Christopher>=20 Christopher> Is that the suggested way? Best way? There are 2 options that I know of.=20 o A ports update package that you can install from the ports tree o Cvsup. -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KE. The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of y= our=20 own arm. -Fred Dehner=20 --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6iBP9A2k+MNyI/bERArmOAKCHL84hOGCpBDri0Kx7OpgGQpDuOgCfaBF/ KBMGIJ4VrzUPhOT4xtraArY= =7gPN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message