On Oct 6, 2006, at 7:57 AM, RW wrote:
On Friday 06 October 2006 15:14, Chris wrote:
I've been doing is then running portsnap fetch update to apply
patches to the ports. In doing so, I've not seen recompilations take
place and remained somewhat fuzzy as to whether I was merely
retrieving snapshots of source for whatever is in /usr/ports or if in
You aren't even doing that. The ports tree is just a set of recipes
that tells
the ports system how to get hold of the source and build the software
automatically. When you run portsnap or cvsup (with a ports
supfile) you are
simply updating those recipes.
Thanks all, major misunderstanding on my part. It's likely a problem
with my ability to understand the documentation but I'd taken it to
be an alternate method of keeping ports current. If I understand
correctly, portsnap is only allowing the ports to install correctly
in subsequent cd /usr/ports/*;make install sessions and adding new
pointers for ports added to the tree.
I found a cookbook on portupgrade and will research portaudit next.
Thanks again.
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