Someone, quite probably Bryan Cassidy, once wrote: >I was just wondering something. I know this updates the ports but what I want to >know is what "EXACTLY" does this command do in a little more detailed answers >but simple enough to understand. The command is this > >cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
cvsup is the name of a binary than does the updating. Basically it looks at the files you have in ports and sees what if anything you need to download so it is up to date. -g tells the binary to run in non-graphical mode -L 2 says what kind of messages you'll see scrolling by the screen -h cvsup2.freebsd.org this says what server to get the information from /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile is a default skeleton for downloading the most recent ports collection. This page explains it better: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html If you want more technical details then try here: http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/ Kevin -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message