From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 18 16:49:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF74D37B408 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2001 16:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: from d1o913.telia.com (d1o913.telia.com [195.252.44.241]) by mailf.telia.com (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5INmvJ10132 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 01:48:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ertr1013.student.uu.se (h185n2fls20o913.telia.com [212.181.163.185]) by d1o913.telia.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA23471 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 01:48:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 45849 invoked by uid 1001); 18 Jun 2001 23:48:26 -0000 Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 01:48:25 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Keith Spencer Cc: fbsd Subject: Re: can I tar and copy src & ports after cvsupping? Message-ID: <20010619014825.A45835@student.uu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Keith Spencer , fbsd References: <20010618233649.10051.qmail@web12005.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010618233649.10051.qmail@web12005.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.19i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:36:49AM +1000, Keith Spencer wrote: > Hi all, > I am looking for a quick way out to cvsup a machine > with a slowwwwww connection. > I have a fast adsl connection to another machine and > have cvsupped the /src & ports trees. > Q1) > To do the same to my other slow connection machine can > I simply tarball the /usr/src and /usr/ports > and ftp them to my slow machine & then make etc? > Tell me it is that simle pleeeese. That should work fine > Q2) > If I tar up the trees are the or how can the > permissions be retained... tar -czvf do the trick? You have to use the -p flag to tar when unpacking the tarball. So: tar zcvf to create the tarball tar zxvpf to unpack it > Q3) > I have 4.2 stable on these 2 machines. > I have read the make world docs but to be honest I > have very little idea about what I am reading. It > looks as if I can just do the make world process and > it should work. Should I be confident here. These are > mission critical machines and I am by NO means expert. > Any tips would be invaluable. PS Keeping in mind I am > a dummy, I'd appreciate plain as possible language. > I have no external support. You good people are it. > Thanks so much > Keith > It is fairly easy. Remember to read /usr/src/UPDATING first. I would strongly recommend that you try out the procedure on some machine that is not mission-critical first if you can. That way you can make sure that everything works without risking anything important. ("Always mount a scratch monkey.") -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message