From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 21:35:25 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 500DEB04 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x22d.google.com (mail-ig0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22d]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 112CCCAF for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:35:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f173.google.com with SMTP id a13so14666866igq.0 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:35:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=naMBPMnyy/gTEb1+hkkdEIFkNmsCZLo1eaI2esgRdrU=; b=MWl1KwpKTFig8dPi2LwCKJkl4zGWRlLoEcvF4UjUpYc+SELzpMeLriw6k4whV80UK7 HXhqDPCsyql3GZ0qqVuFlcUwJ34uPTBD+EuZmp/8lxaHvFeEXN7Lueo/AjhErgjLnhFv d+1uEVKo5uQ04MHYuKVChp10/0aQggB9yMZhgiF3dQAIm7yzbkJotiz9eLRG3GscmCEK 2OHjYEdAqbavyvO8BEca29+5n35Q86Hsa0WxrICoZvvsP/JXUi6juZoIQoibY9UruHKx ee8v6XW63AujLaubkTmUEp2gLwxr0clg15DDlqOA4H0fi/uuK5HZszvrtMN1FbYY8ayK L80w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.137.99 with SMTP id qh3mr22104692igb.7.1421703324493; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:35:24 -0800 (PST) Sender: christopher.maness@gmail.com Received: by 10.36.122.212 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:35:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.122.212 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:35:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <87sif6lem6.fsf@corbe.net> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 13:35:23 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Z-MVDyleaV5nsVDG_A6wmyaZhCc Message-ID: Subject: Re: Mergemaster with Freebsd-Update From: Chris Maness To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: Daniel Corbe , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:35:25 -0000 On Jan 19, 2015 1:24 PM, "Warren Block" wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015, Chris Maness wrote: > >> On Jan 19, 2015 12:07 PM, "Daniel Corbe" wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Chris Maness 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