updating ports collection

Daniel O'Connor doconnor at gsoft.com.au
Tue Dec 30 00:39:37 PST 2003


On Tuesday 30 December 2003 18:12, mcabanatuan at wi.rr.com wrote:
> this should be a fairly simple question for any of you, but i've been
> working around my current system and decided it's time to update my ports
> collection. i worked through the stuff i needed to do in order to actually
> update, but when i 'make update' it returns this:

Use CVSUP instead unless you want to mirror the ports CVS repo (not really 
wise IMHO)

There are examples in /usr/share/examples/cvsup and the handbook covers it.
Go here -> 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
and look at the "CVSUP Method"

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