Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:15:18 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: cd /usr/src; make update? Message-ID: <v04220804b4ebd61989a6@[194.78.235.215]>
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Folks, This doesn't seem to be working quite as easily as I would have hoped. If you're not in North America, you can't get your crypto sources from one of the US or Canadian mirrors, and I'd be willing to bet that the international mirrors don't even have the crypto stuff -- this is why you have to go to cvsup.internat.freebsd.org for International crypto sources. However, there appears to be just the one supfile that controls the configuration for all of /src -- by default, that would be /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile, while the crypto stuff should come from /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/secure-stable-supfile. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear possible to specify two different cvsup hosts in a supfile, so you can't just concatenate these two supfiles together (making the appropriate changes for the cvsup hosts for the different packages), so that you could actually have a reasonable expectation that "cd /usr/src; make update" would actually work and update *everything* in /usr/src, the crypto stuff included. Am I missing something here? Should I not be using "make update" at all, but instead be calling the appropriate cvsup commands with the appropriate supfiles directly? If so, then why does "make update" exist at all? And if we're going to continue to use "make update", what would it take to get the default supfiles changed from something under /usr/src to be something under /etc, so that they don't get wiped out every time you do a "make update", thus requiring that you go back in and re-edit them to specify the appropriate cvsup hosts, etc.... Heck, while we're at it, why not have three (or more) variables in /etc/make.conf that specify the default cvsup hosts for the ports subsystem, /usr/src, and the crypto stuff, so that we can combine these with standard templates that are missing only things like the cvsup host definitions? BTW, if this is something that would more appropriately be discussed on the -current mailing list for future releases, please let me know. Thanks! -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See <http://i-want-a-website.com/about-microsoft/twelve-step.html>; for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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