Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 07:39:52 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg/ports question Message-ID: <CAOc73CBCe6D-x8APWAMADuVQPHL1qg8r52kyEVrri6xhu5bZiw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5557C9C4.2020301@hiwaay.net> References: <555786F1.8000509@hiwaay.net> <E0DC92E3-56FD-4F15-A5A3-44EF7E28E096@ardiefox.me> <5557C9C4.2020301@hiwaay.net>
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On Sunday, May 17, 2015, William A. Mahaffey III <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: > On 05/16/15 13:22, Ardie H. Hwang wrote: > >> Postmaster is for easy mass upgrading ports member softwares, not for >> updating ports tree itself. >> >> Try `portsnap fetch update` first, then issue `portmaster -L` again. >> >> -- >> Ardie H. Hwang >> ---------------- >> email:iam@ardiefox.me >> mobile: +82-10-I-AM-ARDIE >> > > That's my point of misunderstanding, I thought my args to portmaster would > check the remote repos for updates & report on them, man page seems to > indicate that .... > No, as Ardie wrote, portmaster checks for updates of software in the ports tree local to your computer, it is up to the user to ensure the ports tree is updated before using portmaster. However, when portmaster is instructed to use packages (with -P or any of the --packages options), then it will get the latest package builds from the remote package repository (regardless of your local ports tree). Hope that helps clarify it. More information on how to update your ports tree is available here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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