From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 00:39:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D5F616A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:39:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68ECB43D2D for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 00:39:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from chowder.dons.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBU8dSE7025745; Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:09:29 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: mcabanatuan@wi.rr.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:09:27 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <138b101371f4.1371f4138b10@rdc-kc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <138b101371f4.1371f4138b10@rdc-kc.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312301909.27514.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -4.7 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Subject: Re: updating ports collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 08:39:37 -0000 On Tuesday 30 December 2003 18:12, mcabanatuan@wi.rr.com wrote: > this should be a fairly simple question for any of you, but i've been > working around my current system and decided it's time to update my ports > collection. i worked through the stuff i needed to do in order to actually > update, but when i 'make update' it returns this: Use CVSUP instead unless you want to mirror the ports CVS repo (not really wise IMHO) There are examples in /usr/share/examples/cvsup and the handbook covers it. Go here -> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html and look at the "CVSUP Method" -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5