A question about using portsnanp to upgrade ports tree

[Nan Xiao]

Hi Chris,

Yes, you are absolutely right! If I don't run "portsnap extract", I get the following errors:

/usr/ports was not created by portsnap.
You must run 'portsnap extract' before running 'portsnap update'.

Thanks very much for your answer again!



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From: Christofer C. Bell
Date: 2016-06-17 08:48
To: Nan Xiao; FreeBSD Questions
Subject: Re: A question about using portsnanp to upgrade ports tree
You will still need to do the extract.  If you try to upgrade a ports tree that has not previously been installed by portsnap, it will give you an error message telling you to do an extract.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Nan Xiao <nan at chinadtrace.org> wrote:
Hi all,

Greetings from me! I have a question about using portsnap.

After reading Using the Ports Collection in handbook, per my understanding, if /usr/ports/* is not empty
after installing FreeBSD:

/usr/ports # ls
.arcconfig      Mk              audio           distfiles       hebrew          multimedia      print           x11
.gitignore      README          benchmarks      dns             hungarian       net             russian         x11-clocks
.....

I only need to use "portsnanp fetch update" to upgrade ports tree, no necessary to do "portsnanp fetch extract".

Is my understanding right? Thanks very much in advance!



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