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Date:      Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:40:20 +0900
From:      "Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai" <maverick31337@vfemail.net>
To:        Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
Cc:        Tom Trelvik <ttt@cwru.edu>
Subject:   Re: Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release
Message-ID:  <42558CA4.7020903@vfemail.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050407141806.P1023@makeworld.com>
References:  <425574CE.8000105@vfemail.net> <42558243.2090601@cwru.edu> <20050407141806.P1023@makeworld.com>

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Chris wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Tom Trelvik wrote:
>
>> Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote:
>>
>>> *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db
>>> *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete
>>> use-rel-suffix
>>>
>>> src-all
>>
>>
>> I don't think you want "tag=." as the default. That would put
>> you the most current sources for the OS, which may have plenty of
>> transient issues you don't want to have to deal with.
>>
>> I use the following supfile regularly. You can see that I set
>> the default tag to RELENG_5_3 which is basically the original
>> release of 5.3 plus security updates
>> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html).
>> I do that because these are servers that I try to keep as stable
>> as possible. For a personal system, you may prefer to use
>> RELENG_5 to get something more up to date, without being the
>> bleeding edge of CVS updates. You can also see that I specify a
>> different tag to grab for ports, so that I can get the updates on
>> them.
>>
>> *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default
>> prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 *default delete
>> use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>
> If I'm not mistaken, he did mention the ports supfile. What I gave
> him (assuming he only wants one supfile for ports, and one for src)
> is simply that.
>
> It's a very basic, to the point supfile. He needs nothing more then
> what I posted. The above reflects (to me atleast) the makings of a
> supfile for gathering the src tree.
>
> Perhaps I read him wrong, perhaps I took for granted he only wanted
> a ports supfile. If I'm right, then what I gave him is all he
> needs. He does not need to be muddied with thigs that have zero to
> do with supping the ports tree.
>
>
> Best regards, Chris
>
> The night before the english history mid-term, your biology
> instructor will assign 200 pages on planaria.
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Don't mind, I made independent supfiles for ports and src. It's much
easier than I expected..I wonder why I coundn't find a solution with
google.

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