Reinstalling, then upgrading

[Curtis Vaughan]

On 23 Aug, 2004, at 13:16, Robert Huff wrote:

>
> Curtis Vaughan writes:
>
>>  Finally, while I'm reinstalling 4.8, I would like to know
>>  something about the following.
>>  It seems to me that cvsup is actually downloading the entire
>>  repository of packages for FreeBSD.  Is that really what one has
>>  to do to perform an upgrade?
>
> 	Cvsup updates what you tell it to update - if you ask
> correctly, as little as a single file.
> 	
>> 						  It seems like what you would need
>>  to do is merely upgrade those packages necessary for the latest
>>  kernel,
>
> 	"world".
>
>> 			then upgrade the kernel,
>
> 	"kernel".
>
>> 								 then upgrade all installed
>>  packages.  (Packages meaning ports, right?)
>
> 	"ports".
> 	And that's right, except ....
> 	Once you've installed the ports tree (say from CD) do one run
> of cvsup to bring the tree up to date.  This may be a fairly large
> update, but will not be everything because some ports haven't
> changed in years.
> 	Afterwards, you can run another update once a week, or once a
> month.  (Once a month is stretching it, because some popular ports
> get updated very frequently.)
> 	If there are parts of the ports tree you don't care about
> (e.g. vietnamese or mbone) there are ways to tell cvsup to ignore
> that entire sub-tree.
>
> 	Did this answer your question?  (And if not, can you be more
> specific?)
>
>
> 				Robert Huff

I think so for now.
Thanks!

Curtis