Hello all,
Thanks for the awesome OS!
I am a Linux user and I just started using FreeBSD. It is awesome, and
the Handbook as well!
I am following Chapter 24 of the Handbook to update my system.
First I completed the freebsd-update
Then I ran portupgrade -av
Then I ran portsnap.
When I
On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:23:58 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote:
First I completed the freebsd-update
Then I ran portupgrade -av
Then I ran portsnap.
It's a bit confusing to me. Why do you first update your installed
ports, then the ports database? I would thing it would make more
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 08:23:58 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote:
First I completed the freebsd-update
Then I ran portupgrade -av
Then I ran portsnap.
It's a bit confusing to me. Why do you first update your installed
ports, then the ports database? I would thing it
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:26:49 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote:
I checked the man page, and the -PP option is indeed what I am looking for.
The -PP option forces packages. Keep in mind that it *may* happen
that there isn't a package for a specific port, or a package uses
the default
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2010 10:26:49 +0200, Coert lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote:
I checked the man page, and the -PP option is indeed what I am looking for.
The -PP option forces packages. Keep in mind that it *may* happen
that there isn't a package for a specific port, or a
If one installed a fresh FREEBSD-7.0-RELEASE on a new computer,
with 'yes' to installing the Ports Collection during sysinstall,
and opts for portsnap as the tool to keep /usr/ports updated in the future,
and opts for portupgrade to upgrade ports
then,
what is the correct procedure to do after
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET)
Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote:
( decompress to /usr/ports )
# portsnap extract
( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has
a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. )
You need the extract so that the tree is exactly
RW wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET)
Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote:
( decompress to /usr/ports )
# portsnap extract
( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has
a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. )
You need the extract so that the tree is
[ Since this is on-topic, I'm taking it back on-list. ]
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:26 +0100 (CET)
Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote:
'Installing the tree from disk' do you mean with that: the install
during sysinstall of /usr/ports from what is on the
FREEBDSD-7.0-RELEASE CD's ?
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, RW wrote:
[ Since this is on-topic, I'm taking it back on-list. ]
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:26 +0100 (CET)
Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote:
'Installing the tree from disk' do you mean with that: the install
during sysinstall of /usr/ports from what is on
README.html).
So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, upgrade is
always to be preferred over extract, right?
unless you made BIG mess in /usr/ports - yes
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
Portsnap doesn't know about anything in the ports tree that it didn't
put there itself. For that reason it needs to bring the tree to an
initial known-state by replacing all port directories and other
files. For the same reason you
On 12/18/08 12:12 PM, Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files,
upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right?
Yes. As RW has already noted, extract
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org wrote:
On 12/18/08 12:12 PM, Daniel Bye danie...@slightlystrange.org wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files,
upgrade is always to be
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