Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-28 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... I tested and compared results on FreeBSD 9.0 and FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 (done here earlier) and this is a summary. Please review it, in particular the conclusions, as they are intended to be the base for filing a PR#. Test on FreeBSD 9.0 --- $

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-27 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 26 November 2012 21:15, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com writes: ... One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date might not be simpler, and perhaps, more reliable ... As managed by portsnap: $ du -hs /usr/ports/ 850M/usr/ports/

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-27 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/12 4:36 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 26 November 2012 21:15, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com writes: ... One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date might not be simpler, and

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-27 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Nov 27, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/12 4:36 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: On 26 November 2012 21:15, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com writes: ... One wonders if

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-27 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Greg Larkin wrote: Unless you plan to use svn commands other than checkout in your ports tree, I would suggest switching to svn export or perhaps the svn-export script (http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/svn-export/) to fetch your ports tree. The export command will not

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-27 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/12 11:11 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Greg Larkin wrote: Unless you plan to use svn commands other than checkout in your ports tree, I would suggest switching to svn export or perhaps the svn-export script

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread jb
Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com writes: ... I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Well, not quite ... # portsnap fetch update Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 6 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/25/2012 11:17 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/26/2012 01:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been running 'portsnap fetch' or

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 11/26/2012 01:30 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Ummm... how long

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2012 13:49, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I replaced my csup cron entry with the following: portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap update You definitely don't want to do this. Most importantly, 'extract' and

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 26 November 2012 13:49:05 Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I replaced my csup cron entry with the following: portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap update portsnap fetch should only be used interactively; for

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Stas Verberkt
jb schreef op : Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com writes: ... I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Well, not quite ... I think, after the security incident, you had to obtain a fresh snapshot of the ports tree, i.e.

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.ukwrote: On Monday 26 November 2012 13:49:05 Odhiambo Washington wrote: I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I replaced my csup cron entry with the following: portsnap fetch portsnap

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: [snip] And now I need to find an alternative to handle the src updates using svn or something... SVN works, but isn't amazingly quick. If you're on a release branch you can get the src (and just the src) using freebsd-update(8), which should be pretty speedy and

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread jb
Stas Verberkt legolas at legolasweb.nl writes: jb schreef op : Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com writes: ... I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Well, not quite ... I think, after the security incident,

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Fleuriot Damien
I don't get what you're trying to show here. What commands you've run indicate that: 1/ you have an up to date ports tree 2/ one of the installed ports needs to be updated So what ? Just run # portmaster libreoffice I think you might be confused, new version available means that you have

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 02:08:52PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Secondly, for the sake of the servers, please don't run 'portsnap fetch' from a cron job. You're not the only person to think of doing that, and most people who do have the job run at

RE: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
So is portsnap cron update and portsnap fetch update doing the same thing? Whichever way, it sounds like I need an initial run of portsnap extract before putting this in crontab. From scratch, you need to portsnap fetch extract to establish your ports directory. After that you either use

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread jb
Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com writes: ... One wonders if using svn to keep the ports tree up-to-date might not be simpler, and perhaps, more reliable ... As managed by portsnap: $ du -hs /usr/ports/ 850M/usr/ports/ As managed by svn (it took much longer to checkout/download it

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2012 19:17, Warren Block wrote: It can be downloaded with 'make fetchindex', or built in place with 'make index' (slow--I think Mr. Seaman has a Perl version that's probably much faster). That's Dr Seaman if you're going to insist on being formal. Most people call me Matthew. And,

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox Thunderbird against the new libraries and ... they're broken, marked

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox Thunderbird against the

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday 25 November 2012 17:30:15 Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 11/25/2012 06:56 PM, ajtiM wrote: On Sunday 25 November 2012 17:30:15 Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 11/25/2012 05:25 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/11/2012 23:10, Tim Daneliuk wrote: After the recent security scare, I know the ports tree was temporarily frozen. Does anyone know when it will again be updates. I just upgraded to 9.1-PRE and need to rebuild Firefox Thunderbird against the

Re: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/11/2012 00:59, Tim Daneliuk wrote: I use portsnap fetch update and it works... Ah, maybe that was the problem. That works for me as well. Ummm... how long have you been using portsnap? If you haven't been running 'portsnap fetch' or 'portsnap cron' then you won't have received any