Updating ports

[Jukka Huvinen]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, clayton rollins wrote:

> >I have only a modem connection and I would like to avoid updating
> >everything and would like to stay within stable-branch.
> >
>
> If you use cvsup with compression, it shouldn't be too big to just get the
> ports tree. (I think it was just over 30 megs when I did it...)

Yes, the tree is not a problem, but the ports are. XFree + gnome2 are
almost everything. And all depends on others...

I updated to the "current" ports tree also, but some of them are not even
available as a package. Also portupgrade used a download path
.../stable_4_8 ... or similar and did not find the packages. Getting them
manually was possible, but I ended up with partial upgrade and
nonfunctional X. Something went wrong.

pkg_delete -a and reinstall restored it back to 4.8...


BTW, there are a package-directory current-4 or stable-4 in
ftp.freebsd.org. I wonder why there would not be a ports tree available
for it. I could give a try with manual update according to that directory
versions.


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Jukka