On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 12:29:54PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a longtime OpenBSD user admin'ing my first FreeBSD box. During > installation of the system (6.2-RELEASE), I saw the option to add the > ports tree and did so, figuring it made sense to add at that point > since I'd definitely be using it later. Unfortunatley, I've just now > discovered -- after installing several ports from my sysinstall'd tree > -- that this installed an old version of the ports free, from when this > version of FreeBSD was released. This is a problem because I need newer > versions of some of the ports than is currently available, and I'm not > sure how to proceed.
I really wish sysinstall would install a copy of ports created by portsnap and provide an option to install the associated working files. As things stand, I never install the ports collection from sysinstall because it takes forever and I just end up deleting it. > What I'd really like to be able to do is used portsnap, which seems > like a great tool, but preserve all of the information about my > existing packages. I have no idea if I can just wipe out my old > /usr/ports and run "portsnap extract" (I've already run "portsnap > fetch"), or if doing so would break my ports DB, dependencies, or > something else I'm not familiar with. You can delete /usr/ports at any time without touching any installed packages. You may want to save /usr/ports/distfiles and if it exists /usr/ports/packages before removing /usr/ports. -- Brooks
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