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knowelus.com » Updating FreeBSD Ports Collection — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:06:27 +0000

[...] CVSup can be used as a quick method for getting the Ports Collection and keep the ports tree up to date. CVSup distributes and updates source trees from a master CVS repository on a remote server host. The FreeBSD sources are maintained in a CVS repository on a central development machine in California. With CVSup, FreeBSD users can easily keep their own source trees up to date. CVSup uses the so-called pull model of updating. Under the pull model, each client asks the server for updates, if and when they are wanted. The server waits passively for update requests from its clients. Thus all updates are instigated by the client. The server never sends unsolicited updates. Users must either run the CVSup client manually to get an update, or they must set up a cron job to run it automatically on a regular basis There are few ways to install CVSup in FreeBSD: Install CVSup by using the precompiled net/cvsup package from the FreeBSD packages collection. To install from package collection. # pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui # make install clean Or build CVSup from source by using the net/cvsup port (which includes CVSup GUI). Warning: the net/cvsup port depends on the Modula-3 system, which takes a substantial amount of time and disk space to download and build. To build from source. After installing, CVSup is ready and can be executed with the following command: # cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Change cvsup.FreeBSD.org to a CVSup server near you. See CVSup Mirrors for a complete listing of mirror sites. The -L 2 tells CVSup to print out the details of all the file updates it is doing. There are three levels of verbosity, from -L 0 to -L 2. The default is 0, which means total silence except for error messages. While -h specify the supfile location. You may want to use your own ports-supfile, for example to avoid the need of passing the CVSup server on the command line. As root, copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to a new location, such as /root or your home directory. #cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile /root Edit ports-supfile #vi /root/ports-supfile Change CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org to a CVSup server near you. See CVSup Mirrors for a complete listing of mirror sites.Then, you can update your port collections with this command: # cvsup -L 2 /root/ports-supfile links: freebsd.org mydigitallife.info [...]

By: Update FreeBSD Ports Collection to Latest Version with Security Update with Portmanager and Portaudit » My Digital Life

Thu, 18 May 2006 14:30:19 +0000

[...] Portmanager is an FreeBSD utility that automates the process of upgrading and managing installed FreeBSD ports without or almost without user intervention when updating. Portmanager ensures that FreeBSD installed ports accurately reflect and update as of those available in the ports tree. To use portmanager, the FreeBSD ports collection tree needs to be updated with CVSup or Portsnap. [...]

By: Easy Way to Upgrade FreeBSD’s Ports » My Digital Life

Easy Way to Upgrade FreeBSD’s Ports » My Digital Life — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:17:27 +0000

[...] Before you can update and upgrade the FreeBSD’s ports, the Ports Collection needs to be updated. Follow step here to update the Ports Collection. [...]

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