On 2012-10-05 10:16, dweimer wrote:
I am working on switching from updating my systems with csup to
subversion, for the systems I have behind a proxy server. When I was
using csup, I used an SSH connection, tunneling the 5999 port through
the proxy server. Now that I am looking at subversion,
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0700
Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com articulated:
Programs like portmaster can be really helpful here.
Yes, it is what I am expecting. Thank you.
I read the handbook. There are 2 choices i.e. portmanager and
portmaster. I am now thinking which one is
Polytropon writes:
I am now thinking which one is better.
I have used portupgrade / portinstall in the past, but I think
portmaster really is the way to go, at least for me,
As far as I can tell, for 90-95% of tasks they're
indistinguishable. If (generic) you have special
* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote:
Yes, it's not enough.
When you upgrade the base OS to a new major version (ie, going from
7.x to 8.x), the system libraries get bumped to a new version, but any
libraries coming from ports are still linked against the older version
of the
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 11:30:04 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com
wrote:
But it takes very long time to rebuild all ports.
Main problem is KDE, big big ports.
Okay, I shall do it, when I have time.
You can consider using pkgadd -r to install binary packages.
Those are quite synchon
Hi Polytropon,
Firstly, thanks for your suggestion.
* Polytropon (free...@edvax.de) wrote:
You can consider using pkgadd -r to install binary packages.
Those are quite synchon with the ports tree (as they are
centrally built from the ports tree).
I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 14:29:57 +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada ptkris...@gmail.com
wrote:
I checked /var/db/pkg; I have 464 ports installed on my system (including X).
I would probably not do so.
The pkg_add utility is especially useful when building a new
installation from scratch, because it
I don't understand this statement. I have killed portupgrade on numerous
occasions, both locally and remotely, and have never had a problem
restarting later. If you mean portupgrade doesn't restart where it left
off, then yes, that's true, but only in the sense that it goes through all
the
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RW wrote:
Something like
portupgrade -fr perl
is pretty hard to restart efficiently.
A good trick is to use the date comparison functionality portupgrade
provides. So you can do something like:
portupgrade -fr perl -x '=perl'
meaning:
On Dec 22, 2007 11:39 AM, Robe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I want to update some ports. I'm using FreeBSD 6.2.
I was reading in the handbook and there are two ways to update them through
the portupdate and portmanager.
What's the difference between them?
--
Robe.
Each one offers some
What's the difference between them?
The main difference that is relevant to me personally is that portmanager
makes no attempt to be too smart about avoiding compilation, and it is fully
restartable without affecting the results.
It rebuilds ports in such a way that the result is, in theory,
--On December 23, 2007 1:19:21 AM +0100 Peter Schuller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In particular, given a re-build (e.g. upgraded) port X, all ports
depending on X will also be re-built regardless of whether that is
required according to the dependency relation. This is handled in such
a way
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:47:52 -0600
Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--On December 23, 2007 1:19:21 AM +0100 Peter Schuller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In particular, given a re-build (e.g. upgraded) port X, all ports
depending on X will also be re-built regardless of whether that is
RW writes:
3) It is possible to put port-related settings in
/etc/make.conf. I discourage this, as that file gets used for
/every/ make session and I consider it asking for trouble to clutter
it with items that may accidentally overlap with another port. (The
risk is very
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:22:03 -0400
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RW writes:
You don't have to set anything globally in make.conf, you can do it
like this:
.if ${.CURDIR:M*/net-mgmt/net-snmp}
WITH_TKMIB=yes
.endif
That looks good.
and that can be
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:46:55 -0400
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3) It is possible to put port-related settings in
/etc/make.conf. I discourage this, as that file gets used for
/every/ make session and I consider it asking for trouble to clutter
it with items that may
Robert Huff wrote:
Peter Clark writes:
Is there a better (I realize everything is relative) option
when looking at portupgrade vs portmanager? From what I am
reading it seems that portmanager will upgrade and reinstall a
port and all it's dependencies no matter if the dependency needs
it
On October 18, 2007 at 12:16PM Peter Clark wrote:
{ ... ]
Now that I have reread what I wrote, it seems a bit unclear. I have not
used either service before. Seeing as I am looking at using this in
production server environment I would not look at frequently making
changes as one might in
Peter Clark writes:
If you installed a port with some additional config args can you
either supply them the upgrade program or can it be reread from
the previous install somehow? I really am just trying to find a
relatively simple way to make sure that a port gets upgraded and
that I do
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:46:09 -0500
Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Next I need the supfile. I took a look at
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile (I think that's what I want) but
that looks like something that is going to upgrade the entire system (as I
said - probably a good
Can't I just update the ports without updating the entire system?
Yes. Look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
You _are_ on the right track, and you can do what you want.
Thanks Bill. Duh, I was looking right at that and didn't see the
ports-supfile. I'll go take a look now.
Lisa Casey wrote:
Next I need the supfile. I took a look at
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile (I think that's what I want)
Look at and edit '/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile'
there you need to change the line with
'*default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org'
to the host nearest to
Hi Lisa,
The supfile just upgrades the sources. You actually have to build and
install it for it to make any changes. Using the standard supfile,
you can just do portupgrade -arR and it will only upgrade your ports,
it won't touch the base system at all. Then when you want to upgrade
the base
Hi again,
One last question and I think I'll be good to go:
In my ports-supfile, I've changed the host to one that is local to me in the
USA. Do I need to make any changes to
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix
Or can I just leave these as the defaults? I understand
Nope, you're good to go
On 3/14/06, Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
One last question and I think I'll be good to go:
In my ports-supfile, I've changed the host to one that is local to me in the
USA. Do I need to make any changes to
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:05:32 -0500
Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
One last question and I think I'll be good to go:
In my ports-supfile, I've changed the host to one that is local to me in the
USA. Do I need to make any changes to
*default release=cvs tag=.
This line
Hi,
Nope, you're good to go
It worked. Now I have an updated ports collection and I'm feeling pleased
with myself :-)
Thanks guys.
Lisa Casey
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:50:33 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill
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Gee, I did that this morning - make fetchindex that is - and when I ran
portversion -vL= I learned that 14 of the installed packages were to
advanced and I needed to go backwards. I wonder when that INDEX-5 was
try:
pkgdb -F
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:17:09PM -0600, Cody Holland wrote:
After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the following
error.
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: /usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit
non-existent -- dependency list
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:17:09 -0600
Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the following
error.
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: /usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit
non-existent --
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 06:10 pm, epilogue wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:17:09 -0600
Cody Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the
following error.
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:42:57AM +0930, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately, pkgdb -u does NOT rebuild from scratch, but simply refreshes
itself from the directories in /var/pkg/db.
Is there a way I could delete all those directories and make pkgdb go look and
rebuild the db/directories
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 14:46, saad Hage (hotmail) wrote:
Hi,
How I can update Ports via Wingate Proxy? Actually I receive an error
saying me he cannot found the host name.
Try setting HTTP_PROXY and FTP_PROXY before you upgrade / add a package like
this :
export
I installed perl, so I'm no longer getting the 'perl: not found' message
(any reason why perl isn't installed when installing the ports tree??)
The problem now is that the 'make index' command seems to take forever:
idfubar# make index
Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..
And then there's no
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 1:33 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote:
I installed perl, so I'm no longer getting the 'perl: not found' message
(any reason why perl isn't installed when installing the ports tree??)
Just because you installed the ports tree does not mean you installed Perl. If
you did via the
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:22, Rishi Chopra wrote:
For some reason, I can't seem to update the index for the ports database:
idfubar# cd /usr/ports
idfubar# make index
Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..perl: not found
perl: not found
Done.
I also tried attempting my first 'portsdb -Uu'
On Monday 05 January 2004 05:22 pm, Rishi Chopra wrote:
For some reason, I can't seem to update the index for the ports database:
idfubar# cd /usr/ports
idfubar# make index
Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..perl: not found
perl: not found
Done.
Install Perl?!
I also tried attempting my
What FBSD version are you running?
Did you download the cvsup ports-base?
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For some reason, I can't seem
Do you have perl installed? Run which perl and see if it finds it.
Kind regards,
Elvar
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Subject: Updating Ports Index
For some
H.Wade Minter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to update my ports-installed version of Perl from 5.8.0 to
5.8.1. On my test system, I did a portupgrade -rR perl, but it
didn't update any of my installed p5- modules, which caused breakage
until I reinstalled all of them by hand.
Is there
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On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
H.Wade Minter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to update my ports-installed version of Perl from 5.8.0 to
5.8.1. On my test system, I did a portupgrade -rR perl, but it
didn't update any of my
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:14:56 -0500, H.Wade Minter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Yes. portupgrade -rf perl is *exactly* what the incantation I would
have recommended.
That didn't seem to work. I ran that on one system, and it only
Robin Schoonover wrote:
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 12:14:56 -0500, H.Wade Minter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Yes. portupgrade -rf perl is *exactly* what the incantation I would
have recommended.
That didn't seem to work. I ran that on one system, and it
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:56:50AM -0500, H.Wade Minter wrote:
I'd like to update my ports-installed version of Perl from 5.8.0 to
5.8.1. On my test system, I did a portupgrade -rR perl, but it
didn't update any of my installed p5- modules, which caused breakage
until I reinstalled all of
H.Wade Minter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Nov 2, 2003, at 12:01 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
H.Wade Minter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to update my ports-installed version of Perl from 5.8.0 to
5.8.1. On my test system, I did a portupgrade -rR perl, but it
didn't update any of
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(11.06.2002 @ 1930 PST): Warren Block said, in 0.6K:
Lucky I put the water down before reading that--you almost owed me a new
keyboard!
Gotcher keyboard. ::)
Ermmn, I mean, I did it to migrate to the new PORTCOMMENT Makefile
variable, which
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(11.06.2002 @ 1856 PST): Scott Carmichael said, in 0.7K:
I just tried to cvsup my ports collection like I do every few days and
have for months... However, this time, the update seems to be removing all
my ports! This just goes on for pages and
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Scott Carmichael wrote:
I just tried to cvsup my ports collection like I do every few days and
have for months... However, this time, the update seems to be removing all
my ports! This just goes on for pages and pages before I cancel:
Edit
-comment files, though.
end of Re: Updating ports problem! from Warren Block
They were pissing me off.
Ermmn, I mean, I did it to migrate to the new PORTCOMMENT Makefile
variable, which deprecates the pkg-comment files.
I just readded 105 of them, in an effort to really annoy people with
dial
On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote:
(11.06.2002 @ 1909 PST): Warren Block said, in 0.9K:
I'm curious as to why Adam deleted so many pkg-comment files, though.
They were pissing me off.
Lucky I put the water down before reading that--you almost owed me a new
keyboard!
Ermmn, I
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