Re: Updating the ports collection
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:07:07PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup; it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment. Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all I do the same, and run csup as: csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports You can set SUPHOST= `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` SUPFLAGS= -g in /etc/make.conf and save yourself some typing. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpgwSQSo6iuQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Updating the ports collection
2009/10/7 Daniel Bye freebsd-questi...@slightlystrange.org On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:07:07PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup; it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment. Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all I do the same, and run csup as: csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports You can set SUPHOST= `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` SUPFLAGS= -g in /etc/make.conf and save yourself some typing. Dan you -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ the above way is good but this is the simplest as it requires no additional programs or editing csup -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile I use the following as its a bit faster csup -h cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile you can obviously insert your own country code ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Updating the ports collection
The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? Q2: Is this explained in the handbook? If so, where? Thank you, Chris PS: I uses sysinstall to obtain the ports collection from the CD during OS install ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating the ports collection
Chris Stankevitz wrote: The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? You can use csup as explained in section 4.5.1. This will update the Ports Collection you installed from CD/DVD by fetching only the required newer files Or, you can use portsnap too like this: First time: portsnap fetch extract Subsequent times: portsnap fetch update If you are starting with an empty Ports tree (for example you skipped installing it from CD during sysinstall) portsnap will be faster than csup. (Note you can start with an empty tree and csup as well) Anytime you decide to switch from csup to portsnap, always perform an 'extract' Q2: Is this explained in the handbook? If so, where? In section 4.5 as you noticed already. Portsnap is also revisited in chapter 24: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-portsnap.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating the ports collection
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:43:56 -0700 Chris Stankevitz cstankev...@toyon.com wrote: The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I'd suggest that you don't use the tree from sysinstall, unless your intent is not to update the tree until the next release. If you use portsnap the tree gets overwritten with the extract, so you might as well not bother with the on-disk version. If you use csup then the steps are 1. Set the tag to match the port snapshot on the disc and run csup 2. Set the tag to . (the current tree) and run csup again Step 1 does nothing to the tree, but if you skip it you may end with some stale files left in your tree, which could cause serious problems. IMO this is more trouble than it's worth unless you have a dialup connection. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating the ports collection
Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: - you re-run sysinstall and install cvsup from the CD (Configure/Packages/Net/CVSup) - or, since you installed the port tree, you go to /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and you make, make install, make clean Q2: Is this explained in the handbook? If so, where? Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all You may change the default host accordingly. Then I use the command cvsup name_of_that_file Best, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Updating the ports collection
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, The FreeBSD handbook section 4.5.1 describes several methods for obtaining the ports collection including CVSup, Portsnap, and sysinstall. Section 4.5.1 also describes how to update the ports collection, but only for the CVSup and Portsnap methods. Q1: How do I update the ports collection after using sysinstall to obtain it? I cannot speak for postsnap, but for cvsup: csup works (almost?) the same as cvsup, and is in the base system nowadays. I used to install cvsup, but now I only install fastest_cvsup; it's just a utility to find the fastest server for you at the moment. Some may correct me, but I use a file that contains: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all I do the same, and run csup as: csup -g -h `/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /etc/supfile.ports ...where /etc/supfile.ports is pretty much as above. In that case, it doesn't matter what default host is set to, since the -h option to csup overrides the default. The '-c us' part applies to me, but it might not for you; see the man page. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
