On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mike Clarke <jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk>wrote:
> On Monday 26 November 2012 13:49:05 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I am starting to switch, and after all the discussions in this thread, I > > replaced my csup cron entry with the following: > > > > portsnap fetch && portsnap extract && portsnap update > > "portsnap fetch" should only be used interactively; for non-interactive > use, > you should use "portsnap cron" > > "portsnap extract" is only needed for initialising your portsnap-maintained > ports tree. > > So, after your initial portsnap run, what you need in your cron file is > just "portsnap fetch update" > > So is "portsnap cron update" and "portsnap fetch update" doing the same thing? Whichever way, it sounds like I need an initial run of portsnap extract before putting this in crontab. @Matthew, I do not need all ports (astro, hungarian, etc...) but you appear to suggest I need everything, right? My portsnap.conf contains: *REFUSE all arabic astro benchmarks biology cad chinese finance french games german hebrew REFUSE hungarian japanese korean palm polish portuguese russian science ukranian vietnamese* Is that a misnomer? Then coming to freebsd-update (I never thought I'd have to use it one day!), I am a little confused with what to tinker. There are these two lines: *# Components of the base system which should be kept updated. Components src world kernel # Example for updating the userland and the kernel source code only: # Components src/base src/sys world* I always did csup to get my src then manually did the buildworld, make kernel, reboot, installworld, then mergemaster. >From the above lines, I am not sure what I need, but think the "Components src world" is what I need. How it comes to build my custom kernel is still not clear to me. My mergemaster.rc contained: *IGNORE_FILES="/etc/crontab /etc/fstab /etc/group /etc/hosts /etc/inetd.conf /etc/make.conf /etc/master.passwd /etc/motd /etc/newsyslog.conf /etc/ntp.conf /etc/ntp.drift /etc/profile /etc/rc.conf /etc/resolv.conf /etc/services /etc/shells /etc/syslog.conf /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub /etc/passwd /etc/rc.conf.local /etc/zfs/exports /etc//namedb/named.conf /etc/periodic.conf /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts /etc/pf.conf /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/make.conf /etc/src.conf /etc/mail/aliases /etc/mail/mailer.conf /etc/remote"* How now do I deal with this? Hopefully you can explain to someone who has been keeping off freebsd-update. I know there are many like me who are in this situation now that csup is getting deprecated. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
