Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:55:33 -0500 From: Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: eric <eric@dsns.csie.nctu.edu.tw>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Update port Message-ID: <20010312085533.E2706@guinness.osdn.com> In-Reply-To: <20010312000340.B78116@northernbrewer.com>; from chris@northernbrewer.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:03:42AM -0600 References: <200103120251.f2C2pa962446@dsns.csie.nctu.edu.tw> <20010312000340.B78116@northernbrewer.com>
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 at 00:03:42 -0600, Christopher Farley wrote:
> eric (eric@dsns.csie.nctu.edu.tw) wrote:
>
> > I'm newbie in FreeBSD
> > Would someone tell me please how to update my port collection ?
>
> You will need to install /usr/ports/net/cvsup
Using cvsup-bin will be faster since it doesn't compile modula-3 and all
of it's dependencies :-) If you have net connectivity on the machine
already, and it's running FreeBSD, you can do:
# pkg_add -r cvsup-bin
And pkg_add will fetch and install the latest cvsup-bin package.
- jim
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