Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:08:37 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: okay... what exactly does cvs do? Message-ID: <01080103083701.00374@spatula.home> In-Reply-To: <20010801012349.32631.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010801012349.32631.qmail@web20106.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 01 August 2001 2:23 am, Bsd Newbie wrote: > After reading a bit about cvs and listening to what > people said about it, I got the impression that it > updates everything in the ports directory. CVS = The Concurrent Version System. This is the system that FreeBSD uses to allow us to keep lots of different versions of files, including all of FreeBSD's source code, documentation and ports collection. We then assign 'tags' to certain versions of files, to create different streams of development. Like 'HEAD' for FreeBSD-CURRENT, 'RELENG_4' for FreeBSD-STABLE, etc.. > I run cvsup twice a week, so I thought I'd have the > latest updates. CVSup is a program that examines the files installed on your machine with the files on a central server. What files it checks depends on what you ask it to check, through a 'supfile'. See the example supfiles in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ Also read the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/ as it does explain these concepts. Your ports collection will not be updated if you only update your source. And vice-versa. You need to check what supfile you are using. > Last night I tried install mozilla and when I did a > 'make clean && make && make install' the installation > started downloading an older version of mozilla. > > What am I doing wrong? Probably nothing. If you are updating your ports collection, don't forget you only get the most recent version of the port, which may not be the most recent version of the actual software available elsewhere. Most port maintainers regularly update their ports to keep resonably up to date. But if you are unhappy with the version of mozilla in the ports collection, you should look to install it yourself from http://www.mozilla.org > I also did a 'make world' and after I did that typing > 'uname -v' gives the following: > > FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 > jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC That information comes from the kernel, which would imply that you didn't install a new kernel when you remade the world, which would imply you didn't read the instructions on how to keep up to date by using 'make world' as given in the handbook. Hope all that helped. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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