From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 14 17:35:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from level3.dynacom.net (level3.dynacom.net [206.107.213.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 340C937B401 for ; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 30958 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jan 2001 01:35:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO urx.com) (206.159.132.160) by mail.urx.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2001 01:35:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3A6253DE.39F5BC4A@urx.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:35:26 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jhunt@blaz.homeip.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports References: <3A61EB9E.7ABAE57D@centurytel.net> <20010115114608.B86594@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3A6250FA.7ABED2E0@blaz.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jhunt@blaz.homeip.net wrote: > > greetings, > > I checked out some information at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ > on updating sources with CVSup and make world. > > My question is this. Basically all I want to do is make sure my ports > collection is always up to date with the latest ports available for > FreeBSD. I do not wish to update source for the kernel and things of > that nature, just the ports collection. So is Updating Sources > with CVSup at http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ the > best way to go about this? No, because the ports-all doesn't update the port sources. All it does is update the port structure. If someone has change a port by adding a patch, you will add that to your system but that is is. You have to use something "pkg_version -c" to see if your ports are up todate. If one isn't up todate, then you are provided with a series of commands that you can use to update each port that has an upgrade available. You also can't blindly use the output from pkg_version to update your ports. This is especially true for ports that have multiple versions. You have to handle them wisely :). Kent > > Thanks in advance. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message