Updating the ports collection
Daniel Bye
freebsd-questions at slightlystrange.org
Wed Oct 7 12:47:52 UTC 2009
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:07:07PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote:
>
> >Hi Chris,
> >
> >>The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for
> >>obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall.
> >>
> >>Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but
> >>only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods.
> >>
> >>Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to
> >>obtain it?
> >
> >I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup:
>
> csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system
> nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup;
> it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment.
>
> >Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains:
> >
> >*default tag=.
> >*default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org
> >*default base=/var/db
> >*default prefix=/usr
> >*default release=cvs
> >*default delete use-rel-suffix
> >*default compress
> >ports-all
>
> I do the same, and run csup as:
>
> csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports
You can set
SUPHOST= `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us`
SUPFLAGS= -g
in /etc/make.conf and save yourself some typing.
Dan
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