A question about updating src & ports

[Renato Botelho]

> On 29 Dec 2016, at 08:11, blubee blubeeme <gurenchan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Howdy
> 
> I went through the process of building world for the first time, that was
> interesting but I got it. svn clean up prior object files, build world,
> kernel, etc.
> 
> Okay that part is fine
> 
> I have a question about keeping ports up to date, in the past I did
> portsnap fetch update to update the ports but since I totally deleted all
> the ports and used svn checkout to get the latest ports.
> 
> Can I mix portsnap fetch update or should I just continue to use svn update
> /usr/ports


If you download ports tree using ‘portsnap fetch extract’ you can keep using ‘portsnap fetch update’ to update it. If you download ports tree using ‘svn checkout …’, then you should use ‘svn up’.

IMO, portsnap is the easiest way.

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Renato Botelho