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Date:      Tue, 17 Jul 2001 13:33:44 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "R. Lahaye" <lahaye@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: scigraphica-0.7.0
Message-ID:  <3B541487.37C8D01A@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3B531569.2CD5F82B@users.sourceforge.net> <3B53D914.F11E911A@FreeBSD.org> <3B53DFF1.F6F775D5@users.sourceforge.net> <3B540B98.DCE215A9@FreeBSD.org> <3B54115C.6E8CF1B2@users.sourceforge.net>

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"R. Lahaye" wrote:

> Maxim,
>
> Thanks for your throrough explanation. That's exactly what I need to find my
> feet in FreeBSD world.
> I actually heard about cvsup last week (I'm running FreeBSD since 10 days now),
> I tried it, but screwed up my system files. As a result I could not comile
> my kernel anymore. I was so confused that I reinstalled from scratch @!(#.
>
> So allow me to ask a few more details on this particular cvsup, since I don't
> want to create the same mess once again:
>
> > Actually you can use cvsup to update your ports tree to the latest version.
> > This is pretty straightforward:
> > 1. Install cvsup (cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin ; make install clean).
> > 2. Create the following file (ports-supfile):
> > *default host=cvsup10.freebsd.org
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default base=/usr
> > *default release=cvs tag=.
> > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> > *default compress
> > ports-all
> > 3. Connect to the Internet if necessary and run:
> > # cvsup -L2 ports-cupfile
>
> ===> should that be "ports-supfile" (c -> s). If not, I'm confused.

You are correct - it was tyop. ;)

> In a nutshell once again:
>
> I create a file  "/some/directory/ports-supfile",
> add the above lines in it. Then call
>
>    # cvsup -L2 /some/directory/ports-supfile
>
> Is that 100 percent save?

Yes, it is safe. This should not touch any source or system files - only update
content of /usr/ports.

-Maxim


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