correct way to cvsup ports for -stable

[Richard Coleman]

If you are talking about updating the ports tree on a single machine via 
cvsup, then it's easy.  Just make a copy of 
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and update the name of the cvsup 
mirror in this config file (say cvsup3.freebsd.org).  Then the command 
"cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile" will get you an updated tree.  That's it.

If you use portupgrade to manage your ports (recommended), you will then 
need to execute "portsdb -Uu" to rebuild your INDEX.db file.

To answer your question below, there is only one ports tree.  So, even 
if you are following -STABLE for the base code, you will still follow 
the HEAD tag (-CURRENT) for the ports tree.  So you generally cvsup 
twice, once for /usr/src and once for /usr/ports.  The ports tree is 
generally pretty stable, so it works out just fine.

There are refinements to this procedure if you have many machines or 
want to keep a copy of the whole CVS tree (for looking at CVS logs, 
etc).  Read the development(7) man page for an example.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com

Jozef Babjak wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> A similar topic has been disscused here several days ago, but I still don't
> understand, how correctly update ports tree via cvsup. I have installed
> 4.9-release. I upgraded to -stable according to
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile (I have changed only '*default
> host=...' line, all rest I kept untouched) and I done make world and kernel...  
> I understand well how to upgrade system, but my questions about ports are:
> 
> 1) Is it ok to upgrade ports, or do I have keep ports instaled from -release CD?
> 
> 2) If I should upgrade ports, how exactly? Which file from examples I should use 
> and how I need to modify it? There is nothing about ports upgrade in 
> stable-supfile and ports-supfile deals about -current. Is it enough to use
> cvs-supfile from examples directory, change a cvsup server and comment out 
> 'doc-all' and 'cvsroot-all', isn't it?
> 
> Sorry for (maybe) stupid questions; I read comments in stable-supfile and 
> handbook, but this is still not clear for me. 
> 
> Jozef