Can't cvsup ports?

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:29:20PM -0700, rbmailer-dev at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
> > First of all, it is strongly recommened that you use ports-all without
> > a refuse file.  It will save you pain if you want to build an INDEX
> > later.
> >
> Hm.  What's an INDEX?  Some abbreviated lookup mechanism?  Don't see it
> in the Handbook.

/usr/ports/INDEX.  Generated with "make index" or "portsdb -U", or with
recent trees, you can download a mostly up to date one with "make
fetchindex".

> > Second, and more importantly there is no RELENG_4_9 tag.  It's
> > RELEASE_4_9_0 for ports (though you probably don't want a tag at all
> > since that will result in an out of date ports collection which contains
> > known security problems.)
> > 
> Ah.  Of course.  That explains why nothing's coming.  Ok.
> 
> Question on the current vs. RELEASE_4_9_x, though - I'm still on 4.9 &
> don't want to upgrade to 4.10, right now.  If I get current ports, won't
> there (possibly) be 4.10 dependencies?  Not sure I want that...

No, there will not be 4.10 deps.  You may need to install some ports you
wouldn't if your base OS where up to date, but everything should work.

-- Brooks

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