Update and install new packages immediate after installation

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Tue Feb 20 21:55:20 UTC 2007


Jerry McAllister wrote:

>> FreeBSD-6.2-amd64

> It is well documented in the handbook, but basically,
> 
> install cvsup from ports:   /usr/ports/net/cvsup
> 
> Then run the cvsup for source and ports.

You don't need to install cvsup on FreeBSD 6.2 because csup is in the
base system. csup is cvsup rewritten in C rather than Modula-3.  Works
pretty much exactly the same way, reads the same supfiles etc.

Apart from using csup instead of cvsup, the rest of the instructions are
good.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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