Stuart Henderson wrote: >> I feel like following -current, I'm just not sure if I prefer the >> snapshots or building everything from cvs (as I'm doing by now -- very >> time consuming). > > Snapshots aren't being built at the moment, so updating to the most > recent snap and building from updated CVS is the way for now. When they > resume that's quite an easy way to follow development of the base OS, > but for ports work, you still usually want to fetch the ports tree by > cvs (either anoncvs, or cvs against a local repository mirrored by > cvsync or cvsup).
I understand this, so I suppose all maintainers are running -current and that a mandatory step before submitting a new version of a port is to fetch the new -current and compile everything. Correct me if I'm wrong. This triggers another question: upgrading the kernel and the userland binaries is not difficult, but what's the way to upgrade all (and only) the installed ports? I found the 'out-of-date' script, but it's almost totally undocumented so I don't know what to think. Thank you, p.
