On 20/02/2015 2:19 AM, lm wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I'm giving a try to snapshots for the first time. The system feels great,
> but I'm having some issues trying to maintain base system and ports synced.
>
> I've got a local copy of the complete packages tree for convenience, so I
> don't have to update base and ports everytime I want to install a new
> package, but it still seems some packages don't match the base system
> and they crash.
>
> How do you maintain your system fresh? What do you follow?
>
> Thanks,
> Luis
Hi,
I have been using snapshots for my system, but don't update too often.
Sometimes there's a package I want to install, but because my snapshot
is old (stale when compared to the current repository), I can't get the
package.
What I have started to do is download the ports.tar.gz when I install a
snapshot. I have no idea if this is a "supported" approach, but I've
never had a problem building from ports when I need something "after the
fact". The downside of doing this is I get MANY packages installed
that are dependencies of building a port.
For example:
autoconf-2.13p2 automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms
autoconf-2.52p4 automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms
autoconf-2.59p3 automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms
autoconf-2.61p3 automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms
autoconf-2.64 automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms
autoconf-2.65 automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms
autoconf-2.69p0 automatically configure source code on many Un*x
platforms
Yes, I've had this system going for a while! lol.
Cheers,
Steve W.
