From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 16 23:39:53 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3168F3E for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 23:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22b.google.com (mail-ig0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C7B81297 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 23:39:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by igbpi8 with SMTP id pi8so23591970igb.1 for ; Sat, 16 May 2015 16:39:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=XgZmtQzl7AQfKJeDFenh/STwzZfsog/KAXePatqrOxc=; b=S/Agts8rvkwHp6smAWaWbbKy7M3Wco3cXMAGmtrkiAHbL0sHEsAEoD0ZTgcJyB1b2E fA/dUequm1F3EQdEEBtRHkV/gezkR8STE7JF/i0RufPu0LVFY5iKJMhDOrskObR48g6a tfcs4n+3KdKzQ+AKUyXkq8SnjiUa2ldv99/uzhDFUtNst1JI1bdnqj/Dkk+JDK/2UL7+ QTP+c9sWgel2wUax6lmbkExaq4ntcoXc90KNC806x0uTCOT86ahN9RrFMp7APLORt+8X fj80GF+R6iCQBysUtCwGF4CfquQSUeG3XODHlSS37qtdlEhOEjet5iATQFktCwIRLMMc +8vQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.128.213 with SMTP id k82mr3902389ioi.42.1431819592792; Sat, 16 May 2015 16:39:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.64.236.10 with HTTP; Sat, 16 May 2015 16:39:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5557C9C4.2020301@hiwaay.net> References: <555786F1.8000509@hiwaay.net> <5557C9C4.2020301@hiwaay.net> Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 07:39:52 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: pkg/ports question From: Ben Woods To: "William A. Mahaffey III" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions !!!!" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 23:39:54 -0000 On Sunday, May 17, 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 05/16/15 13:22, Ardie H. Hwang wrote: > >> Postmaster is for easy mass upgrading ports member softwares, not for >> updating ports tree itself. >> >> Try `portsnap fetch update` first, then issue `portmaster -L` again. >> >> -- >> Ardie H. Hwang >> ---------------- >> email:iam@ardiefox.me >> mobile: +82-10-I-AM-ARDIE >> > > That's my point of misunderstanding, I thought my args to portmaster would > check the remote repos for updates & report on them, man page seems to > indicate that .... > No, as Ardie wrote, portmaster checks for updates of software in the ports tree local to your computer, it is up to the user to ensure the ports tree is updated before using portmaster. However, when portmaster is instructed to use packages (with -P or any of the --packages options), then it will get the latest package builds from the remote package repository (regardless of your local ports tree). Hope that helps clarify it. More information on how to update your ports tree is available here: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com