Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 16:16:29 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Reinstalling, then upgrading Message-ID: <16682.20637.267060.345504@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <70F13D40-F532-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> References: <C74CE336-F2EC-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <200408231351.44084.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <117C865A-F52E-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <200408231410.11784.FreeBSD@InsightBB.com> <70F13D40-F532-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com>
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Curtis Vaughan writes: > Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know > something about the following. > It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire > repository of packages for FreeBSD. Is that really what one has > to do to perform an upgrade? Cvsup updates what you tell it to update - if you ask correctly, as little as a single file. > It seems like what you would need > to do is merely upgrade those packages necessary for the latest > kernel, "world". > then upgrade the kernel, "kernel". > then upgrade all installed > packages. (Packages meaning ports, right?) "ports". And that's right, except .... Once you've installed the ports tree (say from CD) do one run of cvsup to bring the tree up to date. This may be a fairly large update, but will not be everything because some ports haven't changed in years. Afterwards, you can run another update once a week, or once a month. (Once a month is stretching it, because some popular ports get updated very frequently.) If there are parts of the ports tree you don't care about (e.g. vietnamese or mbone) there are ways to tell cvsup to ignore that entire sub-tree. Did this answer your question? (And if not, can you be more specific?) Robert Huff
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