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Re: HOWTO: Keep your ports tree current
by Jennifer Zhao on Wednesday September 10, @12:07AM

Hi, Jason

My system is FreeBSD4.3, I want to upgrade to 4.7-release.
Now I downloaded cvsup-16.le.tgz.
Please advice What I should do now?
1. Where (which directory) should I put this cvsup-16.le.tgz?

2. pkg_add cvsup-16.le.tgz?

3. Or still do, as you instructed
*****
cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin

make install && clean

(...or on newer installations)
cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
make install && make clean
****

Your early reply will be highly appreciated
Jennifer

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Re: HOWTO: Keep your ports tree current
by LEI on Tuesday March 30, @06:54AM

in the case you want to update your whole system, you have to edit the file
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
locate a cvsup server near you, and directly use the src-all option, no need to change anything here.
then, execute:
#cvsup -g -L 2 standard-supfile
this will download the whole system source tree, and then refer to freebsd handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

this should do.

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