Monday, January 25, 2010

Keep ports collection updated using portsnap

We will use the ports collection and do all installations from that. We have choosen to use portsnap as the way to keep the ports library updated.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ports-using.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-portsnap.html

It seems fairly straight forward and by first look it was much easier than doing it by csup.

Just to go to /usr/ports and execute:

# portsnap fetch
# portsnap extract 

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