Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 21:22:05 -0500 From: "Anil John" <ajohn@cyberforge.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CVSup upgrade procedure question..... Message-ID: <199701260222.VAA26219@onramp.i95.net>
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Greetings, I am currently running FreeBSD v 2.1.5. I finally took the plunge and thought I would check out the CVSup facility that was available. I followed the instructions at the FreeBSD web site and installed the statically linked FreeBSD executables for cvsup. That seems to have gone well. I am currently trying out cvsup by using the following supfile: *default tag=RELENG_2_1_6_1_RELEASE *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress src-all src-eBones src-secure I used the command 'cvsup supfile /var/tmp/dest' for a trial run. I am currently watching the files come down and have a couple of questions: A LOT of sources seem to be coming down which I will not necessarily use (especially the sources for games). What I am primarily intersted in is upgrading from 2.1.5 to the latest 2.1.6.x and would like to have the kernel sources so that I can compile in support for my ATAPI CD-ROM. I would also like the latest version of apache, perl,tcsh, g++, gdb and SAMBA for 2.1.6 installed (All of these are currently installed and running on my machine). In addition I am running ppp with IP Masquerade which I would like to keep around. My question is, what do I specify in the supfile such that everything is not downloaded? How do I get the sources for just the items that I would like? Also, once the sources are downloaded, just exactly what DO I do to upgrade? Where is the make file that you use to upgrade? (I definitely want to compile in the support for the ATAPI cd-rom into there). One thing I noticed is that the directory structure that came down via cvsup seems to be different than what I have on my machine. For example the cvsup had /src/gnu/.... while I have /src/sys/gnu/... Did the structure change between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6? If so, how does this affect the uprade? Also will my /etc directory be trashed when I upgrade? Any info would be appreciated... Anil ___________________________________________________________ CyberForge Group LLC * Internet Consulting E-Mail: ajohn@cyberforge.com * WWW Publishing 410-597-8139 * LAN & WAN Integration URL: http://www.cyberforge.com
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