"Kevin Oberman" <oberman_at_es.net> writes: > I don't know about portsnap, if you use csup (V6.1 or newer) or cvsup, > you should delete your ports tree first! (rm -rf /usr/ports/*). Not necessarily; there are other ways to handle the situation. > These programs keep a record of what files have been updated and their > versions and they will not know about any files already in your ports > tree but no longer in CVS. This can leave you system with orphans that > might include patch files which might cause builds to fail, or worse, > cause apps to mis-behave. You can use a lot less bandwidth by getting the bookkeeping correct first, and then updating. In that case, it will all work properly. http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#adoptReceived on Thu Nov 09 2006 - 16:38:35 UTC
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