Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:49:05 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated? Message-ID: <CAAdA2WMVmtdsC3zpjz3WsmdopsuavhcVTC8TFuG-n_auPB77rg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50B36500.7040308@tundraware.com> References: <50B2A57A.3050500@tundraware.com> <50B2A8D8.90301@FreeBSD.org> <50B2AA07.8090103@tundraware.com> <201211251856.40381.lumiwa@gmail.com> <50B2BEE1.9030903@tundraware.com> <50B31AAB.6000903@FreeBSD.org> <50B36500.7040308@tundraware.com>
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On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> wrote: > On 11/26/2012 01:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >>> I use portsnap fetch update and it works... >>>> >>> >>> Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. >>> >>> >> Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been >> running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received >> any updates to your ports tree, ever. >> >> This is all explained quite clearly in the portsnap(8) man page. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> >> > I just switched from csup last week and am still learning the ropes. > > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I replaced my csup cron entry with the following: portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update Initially I just had `csup -z -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/9.x-ports` where 9.x-ports was an edited version of ports-supfile. Now I have an /etc/portsnap.con with the equivalent edits from my 9.x-ports Is this how best to do it? And now I need to find an alternative to handle the src updates using svn or something... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler.
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