Thanks for a very helpful response. I have another query. As a matter of practice, is it a good idea to upgrade ports immediately after a kernel compile ?
I do not expect that the ports depend directly on the kernel (for most changes in kernel), though I could well be wrong (for instance cdrecord on linux had major problems after the 2.6.9 kernel came out). On Thursday 03 March 2005 04:24, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:15:05PM -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am new to FreeBSD and trying to use CVSup after someone suggested it > > to me on comp.unix.misc.bsd.freebsd. > > > > My supfile : > > > > *default tag=. > > *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default base=/var/db > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > > > ports-all release=cvs > > Hi, > > I usually do it this way: > > 1) copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to /root > > 2) Edit /root/ports-supfile so that it points to your preferred > CVSup-site; the only thing you need to change is the "*default host" > entry. > > 3) run cvsup: cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > > 4) pkgdb -F > > 5) portsdb -Uu > > At this point you've synced your ports tree and all databases. > > Now you can go and install your ports. > > Dru Lavigne has written an excellent article on this you can find at > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html > > It basically covers everything I described above including keeping > your ports-tree up2date including all up/down dependencies. > > HTH, > -ewald > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
