Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:11:04 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <54006DD8.9090200@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net> References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <20140828225153.GA8923@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net>
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On 29/08/2014 13:00, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > On 08/28/14 17:51, Roland Smith wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 02:43:49PM -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> >>> .... How do I check to see if the ports collection has been updated ? I >>> had some problems a week or so ago getting some stuff to compile. There >>> were some later posts alluding to some ports being a bit stale .... If >>> that was my problem, I'd like to update & try again .... >> The http://www.freshports.org/ site gives a nice overview of recent port >> changes. It also lists the SVN revision. If you use subversion to keep >> your >> ports tree up to date you can check the state of your ports tree with; >> >> > svnlite log -r HEAD /usr/ports/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> r366459 | danilo | 2014-08-29 00:34:41 +0200 (Fri, 29 Aug 2014) | >> 2 lines >> >> - Update from 1.40.01 to 1.40.02 >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> In this case my ports tree is at r366459. >> >> Generally I like to update my ports tree weekly. That *generally* >> makes for >> relatively small updates using svnlite (in the base system in FreeBSD >> 10) and >> ports-mgmt/portmaster; >> >> # svnlite /usr/ports >> # less /usr/ports/UPDATING >> # portmaster -ai >> >> Reading UPDATING is important! Sometimes updates need special actions. >> >> Roland > > This sounds like it is very close to what I am looking for. I typed in > the above command & the shell said command not found .... What pkg('s) > do I need for svnlite support ? TIA .... It's in the base system: fileserver:3# which svnlite /usr/bin/svnlite
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