Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:12:14 +0100 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: Ewald Jenisch <a@jenisch.at> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding kernel/system to a state "back-in-time"? Message-ID: <472F32CE.6050306@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <20071105144320.GA3811@aurora.oekb.co.at> References: <20071105144320.GA3811@aurora.oekb.co.at>
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Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > Because of severe problems wrt. a third party app (TSM Backup - see my > previous post) I'm looking for a way to compile a kernel/system to a > state as it was several weeks ago. > > To be specific I'd like to build my system/kernel using the > source-files of FreeBSD 6.2 as they were back on September 14, 2007. > > In cvsup there seems to be a feature "date=..." that should be able to > accomplish this. Has anybody out there used it sucessfully? Is specifying > > date=2007.09.13.23.59.00 > > together with the default-settings in my stable-cvsup-file > > *default host= <here comes my cvsup-host> > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 Should be tag=RELENG_6_2 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > src-all > > enough? That should suffice. > Anything else to consider? This assumes you're already running 6.2. As long as you don't switch branches (or choose a date before the branch occurred!), you should be good to go. Erik
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