portsnap & portupgrade

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Sun Feb 11 12:16:14 UTC 2007


Dino Vliet wrote:
> Hi peeps,
> 
> I've completed a new install of freebsd6.2 and started running portsnap as described in the handbook (the sequence portsnap fetch, portsnap extract and then finally portsnap fetch update).
> At that time I expected that the ports tree would be update.
> 
> However, I expected portupgrade to be in the new location /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade but instead I still saw it at /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade. 
> 
> (I've had problems with that one the last weeks so I'm reluctant to use that).
> 
> But what is the case here? Does the way I've used portsnap not update the ports tree properly?
> 
> Thanks again,

What ever method you use to update your tree - ALWAYS read
/usr/ports/UPDATING

9 times out of 10, this file will answer your questions.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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