Re: which ports tag should i follow?
Hi, because i just begin to learning this os, i chose stable and later will switch to current after know it well. i dont use this for product machine, just learning, so didnt chose release. thanks tengcy 2008/4/1, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:26:24PM +0800, CY Teng wrote: Hi, i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup? does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag .? Sorry, eyes are bleary. I didn't see you were talking about ports. Yes, for ports, use the '.' tag.USe RELENG_7 for the OS. jerry thanks tengcy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which ports tag should i follow?
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:16:06 +0800 CY Teng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, because i just begin to learning this os, i chose stable and later will switch to current after know it well. In FreeBSD, stable means a development branch with stable binary interfaces, you should probably be using RELENG_7_0, which is the 7.0 release plus security fixes. At this stage in the cycle, current is really only for developers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which ports tag should i follow?
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:26:24PM +0800, CY Teng wrote: Hi, i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup? does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag .? Sorry, eyes are bleary. I didn't see you were talking about ports. Yes, for ports, use the '.' tag.USe RELENG_7 for the OS. jerry thanks tengcy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which ports tag should i follow?
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 12:26:24PM +0800, CY Teng wrote: Hi, i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup? does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag .? Depends on what you want to do. Why did you chooose 7.0-stable instead of 7.0-RELEASE which is the official release? Probably 'RELENG_7' is a good choice. using '.' will get you the bleeding edge development snapshot. jerry thanks tengcy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
which ports tag should i follow?
Hi, i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup? does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag .? thanks tengcy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: which ports tag should i follow?
CY Teng wrote: Hi, i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup? does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag .? thanks tengcy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi CY, Your best bet is to use 'portsnap'. It is located in base and very simple to use. man portsnap for more information When you first use it you can follow these steps: sudo portsnap fetch extract Then at subsequent occasions when you want to upgrade your ports tree issue the following command: sudo portsnap fetch update Alternatively it can be run daily via the system crontab with the following command: portsnap cron update Hope this helps, Terry signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: which ports tag should i follow?
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:26 AM, CY Teng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, i'm a newbie to freebsd. after reading handbook, i chose 7.0-stable and cvsup src-all, and now i don't know which ports tag to cvsup? does ports cvs tree have RELENG_7 tag too, or i should follow tag .? Generally, you want to use .. The only time you'd use a specific tag is in rare cases where you're using an old (EOL'd) version of FreeBSD and want to point to a known-good snapshot of the ports tree for that branch. For example, RELEASE_4_EOL. So the short answer is, stick with . as the tag. Regards, Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
