Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:57:39 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap Update Question Message-ID: <200610061557.41452.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <2403D229-1D39-40F8-9C40-01A7DEF8ED5D@cbpratt.prohosting.com> References: <2403D229-1D39-40F8-9C40-01A7DEF8ED5D@cbpratt.prohosting.com>
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On Friday 06 October 2006 15:14, Chris wrote: > I've been doing is then running portsnap fetch update to apply > patches to the ports. In doing so, I've not seen recompilations take > place and remained somewhat fuzzy as to whether I was merely > retrieving snapshots of source for whatever is in /usr/ports or if in You aren't even doing that. The ports tree is just a set of recipes that tells the ports system how to get hold of the source and build the software automatically. When you run portsnap or cvsup (with a ports supfile) you are simply updating those recipes.
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