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Date:      Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:52:38 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to update ports for portmaster?
Message-ID:  <20190628005238.14f1b65a@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <445zoqhdwv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:16:48 -0400
Lowell Gilbert wrote:


> > I've also tried:
> > portsnap update
> > # but it complains that I need to portsnap extract also.. And yet, I
> > don't want to create voluminous storage.. and have two ports
> > management systems in use.  
> 
> Well, portsnap update doesn't update your ports tree. Only the extract
> step does that.

Just to be clear, 'portsnap update' does update your ports tree if the
tree has previously been initialized with a 'portsnap extract'.



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