From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 24 13:20:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1371540A for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:20:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA17881; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:47:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:47:15 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Goodman, David" Cc: "Free BSD Questions List (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Keeping ports up to date In-Reply-To: <10AC0E2910DBD211BC2B0090274604A901369407@exchange-92.wfg.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Goodman, David wrote: > Does anyone have a pointer to info on how to keep my ports collection up to > date? I am stuck behind a 28.8 dialup, so frequent updates may not be an > option. Is there a massive tarball anywhere I could download and unpack in > place? I am not familiar with CVSUP, but I'm willing to learn. > > I'm using FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE on a ix86. You'll find cvsup much easier on your bandwidth than just about any other method. it's simple to install: pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message