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Date:      Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:46:39 +0100
From:      "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de>
To:        Gyrd Thane Lange <gyrd-se@thanelange.no>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn - but smaller?
Message-ID:  <605D3FD2-E631-4A66-8DA2-2BC4EF84AF0F@punkt.de>
In-Reply-To: <5101433A.2080506@thanelange.no>
References:  <20130123144050.GG51786@e-Gitt.NET> <5101433A.2080506@thanelange.no>

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Hi, all,

Am 24.01.2013 um 15:20 schrieb Gyrd Thane Lange <gyrd-se@thanelange.no>:
> It is not a well publicized fact, but I understand that the base =
utility freebsd-update(8) through it's freebsd-update.conf(5) is able to =
pull the base sources (/usr/src/) only instead of also updating your =
binaries.
>=20
> less /etc/freebsd-update.conf
>=20
>  # Components of the base system which should be kept updated.
>  Components src world kernel
>=20
> The above setting is the default, but you may easily leave out =
everything but "src". (Caveat: I have not tried it myself yet.)
> It also have some optional settings for preserving local changes to =
the source instead of blowing them away (default).
>=20
> This will allow you to use the sources for a custom build and install =
yourself.


I tried that and found that at least /usr/src/UPDATING was not touched =
by freebsd-update.
See <E4E97BB3-4535-4E9F-AD78-E16A94F75579@punkt.de> on this list.

Any hints welcome - must have been doing someting wrong.

Thanks
Patrick
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