Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:21:48 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Jeff Muse <jmuse@kcnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NEWBIE: CVSup issues Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112112210120.97962-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <01121121095401.01998@miles.kcnet.com>
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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jeff Muse wrote: > > Hi all - > > First of all, I want to say thank you for sharing your experience to all of > you who post on the list. Between lurking here and RTFM'ing, I'd like to > think that I have part of a clue about FreeBSD on occasion. > > Anyway, I tried my first CVSup last night. I had a few problems, and the Fine > Manuals just confused me more. Here is my supfile (more or less straight from > the /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile and the handbook): > > ports-all tag=. # This line is definitely a problem It's a lot easier (and avoids problems of just this kind) if you use /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and (separately) /usr/share/ examples/cvsup/stable-supfile. However, moving this line to the end of the file will solve your problems. Besides, unless you are updating on a day-to-day basis, updating ports and updating source for the system are not things you necessarily want to do at the same time. You may want to update ports to get a new software version; if you update src at the same time and want to build a new kernel WITHOUT doing a make buildworld (etc), your kernel will be out of sync with userland unless you build the world first. You probably typed thes in--this is not what my stable-supfile looks like. Keep in mind the supfiles get updated when when you src-all, so save your supfile to a new name if you want to keep the changes. > *defaulthost=cvsup6.freebsd.org > *defaultbase=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *defaultprefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 # Not sure if this line is a problem or not. This is right for -stable (last line); others may have typos (space needed after the word default). > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > src-all > > First, I am trying to keep up with FreeBSD 4_STABLE including ports. However, > after running `cvsup -g -L2 supfile`, I get an error: "Release not > specified for collection "ports-all". Complete FreeBSD uses "ports-all" for > the ports example, but the sample supfile and the handbook have dire warnings > about using anything other than "ports-all tag=.", saying you might hose your > installed ports. What am I doing wrong and why is there a difference between > the handbook and Complete FreeBSD? If I comment out the ports line, I can > cvsup and `make world`. > > Second, although I am trying to keep up with -STABLE, I've gotten weird > errors after CVSup. ipfw segfaulted, and `pwd` and `cd ..` gave me "No such > file or directory" several times. Did I somehow get -CURRENT instead, and if > so, what should I have in my supfile to get to -STABLE? You need to run mergemaster; make world does not update the files in /etc (from their new versions in /usr/src/etc) because these are files the administrator of the system configures. Some you want to update; some you want to leave alone; sometimes you need to merge the old and the new. > > I'm sure that there is a simple answer to these questions, but the more I > read, the more I get confused. > > Thanks in advance, > > Jeff > Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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