On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Aaron LI <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 09:48 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> Dear folks, >> >> I decided to try synth and update from ports. It is an awesome tool! >> I like it. However, I do not know how to update the ports tree, do I >> use like >> # portsnap fetch extract >> or does synth take care of that automagically? > > Since the `/usr/dports` is just a Git repo, so I think the best way to keep it > updated is just doing: > > # cd /usr/dports && git pull > > And `portsnap` is a FreeBSD-specific tool, and it shouldn't work on DFly. > > > Cheers, > -- > Aly
So I update the dports tree using git and then use synth to update packages? eightcoreF104# cd /usr/dports/ eightcoreF104# git pull Already up-to-date. This means I am updated, but the packages that failed to build? Thanks, Antonio
