From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 10:55:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FE416A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tyr.grumpygoblin.com (dsl-62-3-71-131.zen.co.uk [62.3.71.131]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 096D543F85 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grez@grumpygoblin.com) Received: (qmail 58018 invoked by uid 85); 19 Oct 2003 17:55:13 -0000 Received: from grez@grumpygoblin.com by tyr.grumpygoblin.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.15 (f-prot: 3.12. Clear:. Processed in 0.243399 secs); 19 Oct 2003 17:55:13 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: grez@grumpygoblin.com via tyr.grumpygoblin.com X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.15 (Clear:. Processed in 0.243399 secs) Received: from unknown (HELO thor.grumpygoblin.com) (192.168.1.10) by 0 with SMTP; 19 Oct 2003 17:55:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 15039 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Oct 2003 17:55:12 -0000 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:55:12 +0100 From: Graham Lillico To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031019175512.GA14987@thor.grumpygoblin.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3F91BDB1.7020301@verizon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F91BDB1.7020301@verizon.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Key: http://www.grumpygoblin.com/~grez/pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: 2E2E C9BE EAF1 51B1 628A FDEF DB42 0DAF B61B 6C7D Subject: Re: CVSup supfile question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 17:55:18 -0000 On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:24:49PM -0400, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote: > I just finished reading the Handbook for CVSup. It appears to be a > very simple process. I'm currently running > FreeBSD 4.8 and from my understanding you can keep your sources up to > date via CVSup. Does this > mean if I were to do a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 and then CVSup my > source all known security issues would > be resolved for the particular FreeBSD I'm running? Would the following > supfile update all of my sources for > FreeBSD 4.8? > > *default tag=RELENG_4_8 > *default host cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > src-all > You can find some example in /usr/share/examples/cvsup , personally I would change your last *default line to be the following. *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress Have fun. Grez.. -- +----------------------------------------+ | Graham Lillico | +----------------------------------------+