[wplug-bsd] point of clarification

[Tom Rhodes]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 20:37:58 -0500 (EST)
Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 19:52:12 -0500 (EST)
> > Brandon Kuczenski <brandon at 301south.net> wrote:
> >
> > > .. what is "RELENG_4"?  How do I "get the latest of" it?
> > >
> > > ref: /usr/ports/UPDATING
> > >
> >
> > RELENG_4 is the FreeBSD stable CVS branch for the 4.X releases,
> > you can get the latest through CVSup:
> >
> > /usr/ports/net/cvsup (on some systems is cvsup-16h or something)
> > /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui
> >
> 
> Okay -- it was just a question of terminology.  It was a hard thing to
> google for.  I was afraid I would have to do the equivalent of upgrade the
> kernel to get the "latest RELENG-4".
> 
> Which is better: to "make fetchindex" or to "portsdb -U"?  I mean, it
> seems that the former is faster, but the latter can be performed without
> network connectivity, but it takes forever.  I'm writing a cron script -
> which should I use?

Because I'm usually always on a network (try to fetch and install
a package or build a port without the distfile without a network
connection hehe), I use "make fetchindex."  On my DSL, Cable and
T1 networks, this is a very VERY fast process which requires
very little resources.

-- 
Tom Rhodes