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HowTo update your ports collection using CVSup

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Category: FreeBSD

Published on Friday, 27 January 2012 16:56

Written by John Sullivan

This article describes how to set up CVSup to download the latest ports collection from the FreeBSD cvsup servers.

• Log in as root
• Type ‘vi /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile’
• Enter (press ‘i’):
  *default host=cvsup3.uk.FreeBSD.org
  *default base=/var/db
  *default prefix=/usr
  *default release=cvs tag=.
  *default delete use-rel-suffix
  ports-all
• Type ‘:wq’ to save and exit
• Type ‘cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui’
• Type ‘make install clean’
  • [OK] – Options for gettext 0.14.1 (select nothing)
• Type ‘cd /’
• Type ‘rm –r /usr/ports’ – to ensure that files are removed as well as added automatically to ports tree
• Type ‘rehash’
• Type ‘mkdir /usr/local/etc/periodic’
• Type ‘mkdir /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily’
• Type ‘mkdir /usr/local/etc/periodic/weekly’
• Type ‘mkdir /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly’
• Type ‘vi /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/900.packageinfo’
  #!/bin/sh
  echo
  echo “Downloading Ports Collection via CVS”
  /usr/local/bin/cvsup –g –L 1 –z /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile
  exit $rc
• Type ‘chmod +x /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/900.packageinfo’
• Type ‘/usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/900.packaginfo’

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