On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Tim Daneliuk <tun...@tundraware.com> wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 01:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> >>> I use portsnap fetch update and it works... >>>> >>> >>> Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. >>> >>> >> Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been >> running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received >> any updates to your ports tree, ever. >> >> This is all explained quite clearly in the portsnap(8) man page. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> >> > I just switched from csup last week and am still learning the ropes. > > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I replaced my csup cron entry with the following: portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update Initially I just had `csup -z -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/9.x-ports` where 9.x-ports was an edited version of ports-supfile. Now I have an /etc/portsnap.con with the equivalent edits from my 9.x-ports Is this how best to do it? And now I need to find an alternative to handle the src updates using svn or something... -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. _______________________________________________ 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"