From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 25 18:22:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09956 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:22:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from onramp.i95.net (root@onramp.i95.net [205.177.132.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA09951 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:22:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from flame (ppp10.bcpl.lib.md.us [207.19.142.24]) by onramp.i95.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id VAA26219 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 1997 21:22:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199701260222.VAA26219@onramp.i95.net> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Anil John" Organization: CyberForge Group To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 21:22:05 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: CVSup upgrade procedure question..... Reply-to: ajohn@cyberforge.com Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.52) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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