From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 12 17:27:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-67.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F8637B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:27:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 189FE66B32; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:27:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:27:51 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: "Christopher W. Aiken" , FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Ports Tree Update Message-ID: <20010212172750.B41156@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010212194901.A40352@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ftEhullJWpWg/VHq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010212194901.A40352@poeza.iconnect.co.ke>; from wash@iconnect.co.ke on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:49:01PM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:49:01PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > * Christopher W. Aiken [20010212 19:44]: writing o= n 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? >=20 > There are 2 options that I know of.=20 > o A ports update package that you can install from the ports tree If you're thinking of the "upgrade kits", these update parts of your base system to allow it to work with newer ports collections, they don't upgrade the ports collection itself. There is a tarball containing all of the ports collection, but it's really only useful for initial installations between of the bandwidth usage in downloading a lot of stuff you already have. > o Cvsup. This is the best way to update. See Q11-13 in the cvsup FAQ on www.polstra.com if you are cvsupping for the first time, or you'll have problems with cvsup not deleting some of the files which have been removed from the collection. Kris --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq 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 iD8DBQE6iI2WWry0BWjoQKURAhbZAJ4n4tmSsUKselhw7Cg0UcBou2z4qQCgmvMc jZ0YjvZ0ukbRsnYPxN7EsAI= =PRYE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ftEhullJWpWg/VHq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message