Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:35:23 -0800 From: Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mergemaster with Freebsd-Update Message-ID: <CANnsUMEbpJYqxtgY=igGMXRpjZph37fxbRQy55c3Y97PGo22xQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1501191421590.95172@wonkity.com> References: <CANnsUMEF9h%2BfgTP2y0cu3m=Fs3iOgR9cPAYodgXrOryxjV6Yog@mail.gmail.com> <87sif6lem6.fsf@corbe.net> <CANnsUMEx300=GAS7Dr9C32nJWY4nF5O6tB2PZGG5%2B53HxEFSwA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1501191421590.95172@wonkity.com>
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On Jan 19, 2015 1:24 PM, "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Chris Maness wrote: > >> On Jan 19, 2015 12:07 PM, "Daniel Corbe" <corbe@corbe.net> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com> writes: >>>> >>>> >>>> Also, is the a tool like portsnap for my source tree? I used svn the >> >> last >>>> >>>> time and downloaded the whole version 10.0 tree. I think I should be >> >> able >>>> >>>> to apply deltas only for the minor upgrade to 10.1, but google has not >> >> been >>>> >>>> my friend here. I know that svn has that capability like cvsup did, >> >> but I >>>> >>>> have not been able to figure it out. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Chris >>> >>> >>> Once you've fetched the entire tree for the first time, all you need to >>> do is continually run svn fetch in /usr/src to grab any updates or >>> additions. >>> >> >> I had figured that out, but how do you increment up a minor version? > > > The version was specified by the path of the initial 'svn checkout'. > Afterwards, any changes to that branch are included when an 'svn update' > is run. > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html So in that case I would have to blow the whole tree away to go from 10.0 to 10.1. I understand that some may have a different philosophy on following version changes, but the last time I let go until the end of support it took a lot of effort to get up to speed. I was also missing out on much better ports mgmt tools. Chris
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