OpenBSD updating ports

[James Hartley]

On Dec 18, 2007 12:33 AM, x x <tonino-pablo at lycos.com> wrote:
>
> How do I use csup or cvs to keep the ports up to date all that time? I am
> using release, I'm not running current if that makes any difference.

Note that -release is defined by what is shipped on the official CD
sets.  Once shipped, -release does not change.  The -stable branch
*may* change due to released patches, but discussion on misc@ of late
indicates that updating the ports tree for -stable is/has become a
casualty of having too few available for maintenance.

The rest of this message discusses -stable.

Similar to discussion found Section 5.3.3 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldBinary

Note what trees are exposed by CVS:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

& substitute the ports branch for what is found in Section 5.3.3.  ie.

   # cd /usr
   # export CVSROOT=anoncvs at anoncvs.example.org:/cvs
   # cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_4_2 -P ports

...which assumes you are running OpenBSD 4.2. This will be done only
once.  Subsequent updates will resemble:

   # cd /usr/ports
   # export CVSROOT=anoncvs at anoncvs.example.org:/cvs
   # cvs -d$CVSROOT up -rOPENBSD_4_2 -Pd

As an important warning, be sure to specify the OPENBSD_4_2 tag.
Otherwise, you will soon begin to experience the weirdnesses described
in:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#NoFun