Newbie: Ports upgrade, CVSup, and disk space problems

Charles Haynes chas.haynes at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 7 06:45:05 PST 2005


Hi, all. I'm new to FreeBSD. 

I'm setting up a machine to act as a webserver using: 

FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p12-jc2 (jail18) #0

Tonight I added the package: 

cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2 

and ran: 

# cvsup -g -L 2 /root/cvs-supfile

After it ran (which took over an hour), I realized I used the
"cvs-supfile" and not the "ports-supfile." I only wanted to update the
ports tree, and not download the entire CVS repository. How do I prune
this back to a manageable size? I'm going to be using this machine
(it's a VPS) as a webserver only. 

Many thanks for any assistance you can offer! 

Here's the relevant parts of the supfile: 

*default host=cvsup9.us.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix

*default compress

src-all

ports-base  
ports-archivers
ports-benchmarks
ports-comms 
ports-converters
ports-databases
ports-devel
ports-dns  
ports-editors
ports-ftp
ports-java
ports-lang
ports-mail
ports-misc
ports-net 
ports-net-mgmt
ports-security
ports-shells
ports-sysutils
ports-textproc 
ports-www   

cvsroot-all


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