Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 20:58:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: sabine225@home.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup is overkill for me Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10110122044110.25222-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <D004E282-BF7E-11D5-B40C-0050E4050F42@home.com>
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001 sabine225@home.com wrote: > > On Friday, October 12, 2001, at 05:54 PM, Philip Paeps wrote: > > > It's not *that* difficult, is it? > > It's horrendous. > > I don't want CURRENT I want STABLE, STABLE sounds better. But all the > docs say no problem just say > tag=something_from_a_list_somewhere_that_no_one_seems_to_tell_you_where_it_is > > Tell me is it, "RELENG_4" ? > > AND docs say if you make any kind of a typo in this > tag=make_a_wild_guess it will delete all the files that don't match your > system. Nice. > > Yea, it's probably not that tough, it just that the documentation blows. > > YOU tell me this wasn't written by mutants: The alternative to this documentation is to cd /usr/share/examples/cvsup and read the supfiles. There is a stable-supfile and a ports-supfile. The first is for upgrading the source for the base system, and the second is for upgrading the ports framework (not the ports themselves). The stable-supfile has the correct tag for stable (RELENG_4 right now) and the ports-supfile has the correct tag for the ports collection. If you're not tracking stuff on a daily basis, there's good reason to do these separately. You do not want to upgrade system source until you really do want to rebuild the system, as your kernel source will get updated, and you might want to build a kernel with source appropriate to the installed system. Sometimes you do not want the ports collection upgraded. And the ports-supfile lets you comment out categories of ports (e.g., some foreign languages, perhaps) that you know you're not going to use. Each supfile tells you to change one line to select the server from which you want to get the source, and gives the correct command for you to run (as root) in its introductory section (the lines preceeded with # marks). cvsup -g -L2 ports-supfile or cvsup -g -L2 stable-supfile -g turns of graphics (which will be used if you're in X) and -L2 gives you a little more information on what's happening. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: mall.daemonnews.org and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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