How do I download new port 'skeletons' in one operation?

[Mark Blackman]

hi,

sorry for delay. you may have worked this out already, but..

'porteasy -u -a' will update  your highest level ports directory,
i.e. and it expects an empty directory, so you'll probably clean
out your existing tree or at least mv it to a different name.
'-a' tell porteasy to go to "the" freebsd anonymous cvs server,
anoncvs.freebsd.org. (which is a different beast to a cvsup server)
It's not obvious to me how many, if any, anoncvs mirrors are available,
so you'll use the US one to begin with.

'porteasy -u -a' will create the following files.

U ports/.cvsignore
U ports/INDEX
U ports/LEGAL
U ports/Makefile
U ports/README
U Mk/bsd.emacs.mk
U Mk/bsd.gnome.mk
U Mk/bsd.kde.mk
U Mk/bsd.port.mk
U Mk/bsd.port.post.mk
U Mk/bsd.port.pre.mk
U Mk/bsd.port.subdir.mk
U Mk/bsd.python.mk
U Mk/bsd.ruby.mk
U Mk/bsd.sites.mk

To do this one one step, creating directories as required, for a given
port 

'porteasy -u -a emacs-20.7' will create/update the high level directories
plus all the directories for that port emacs-20.7.

You should be able to ignore the cvs side of things unless you
want to tune or tweak something.

- Mark

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:17:50AM +0100, David Marsh at home wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2001 18:22:36 +0100
> "Mark Blackman" <mark at blackmans.org> wrote 
> on the subject: Re: How do I download new port 'skeletons' in one
> operation? 
> 
> > something like porteasy is closest.
> > 
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/misc/porteasy/pkg-descr
>  
> Thanks, this looks interesting.
> 
> However, I'm not sure how the cvs updating part of porteasy works?
> (ie, the -u option)
> 
> The man page is a bit brief, and I've never used cvs itself before
> (which seems to have a bit of learning curve!). 
> 
> Can anybody offer me just enough cvs advice to get me going with
> porteasy?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> David.
> 
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