How to update ports for portmaster?

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 27 23:52:50 UTC 2019


On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 18:16:48 -0400
Lowell Gilbert wrote:


> > I've also tried:
> > portsnap update
> > # but it complains that I need to portsnap extract also.. And yet, I
> > don't want to create voluminous storage.. and have two ports
> > management systems in use.  
> 
> Well, portsnap update doesn't update your ports tree. Only the extract
> step does that.

Just to be clear, 'portsnap update' does update your ports tree if the
tree has previously been initialized with a 'portsnap extract'.


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