Comments on: FreeBSD keep ports collection up to date in two easy steps

By: G.Bonev

G.Bonev — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:18:36 +0000

How did you install them on 1st place ?
I believe with pkg_add -r perhaps and/or by compiling them directly from the ports.
If that’s the case those binaries that you are installing with pkg_add are pre-build from standart port tree and standart(default) gcc options.
If the port you want to update is too fresh you will probably not be able to find it on pre-build binaries.. I think. So you will need to recompile from the freshened ports tree you already have on the local machine.
I am sure somewhere on the inet you can find scripts that will do that for you automatically. Or you can make yourself one.
About the core of the OS – you can apply security and version patches directly as precompiled binary as they should have been maintained more often.

By: jonny

jonny — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:19:16 +0000

portsnap keeps the ports tree in sync, but that’s half the story…
how can i keep my installed packages in sync without rebuilding all ports?

By: James

James — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:30:35 +0000

You don’t need to install cvsup; FreeBSD comes with csup preinstalled, which is cvsup re-written in C to run faster. csup has no GUI.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 16:32:00 +0000

You can use sysinstall too:
/stand/sysinstall

By: nixcraft

nixcraft — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:59:00 +0000

Yup portsnap is an alternative and very good system for distributing the Ports Collection. It was first included in FreeBSD 6.0.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:03:00 +0000

I’m new to Freebsd but I recently read about and have been using “portsnap” instead of cvsup to keep my ports updated. Works really nicely. Just two commands “portsnap fetch” and “portsnap update”.