Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:07:14 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updated "world" to CURRENT, how to update ports to CURRENT? Message-ID: <20090324100714.GA451@muon.cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090324095431.GA4288@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090324095431.GA4288@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:54:31AM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I've updated FreeBSD in some VM from 7.0-REL to CURRENT (without any > problem); but I'm unsure now how to bring the ports tree /usr/ports to > CURRENT; > > normally in 7.0-REL I've used 'portsnap fetch update', but this will > perhaps not bring the ports tree to CURRENT; I've read a lot the > handbook about, but it is not clear for me; should I use CVS as well to > bring the /usr/ports to CURRENT, or something else? > The ports tree isn't versioned like /usr/src; 'portsnap fetch' will always fetch the latest copy from cvs mainline, and the only way to go back to a branch (e.g RELENG_5_5_0) is by using csup, which you would only really want to do if you're using a release of FreeBSD which has gone out of support, such as 5.x. -- Bruce Cran
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