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Date:      Sat, 1 Dec 2001 23:56:59 -0600
From:      Darren Crotchett <darren@crotchett.com>
To:        swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: updating
Message-ID:  <20011202055702.C6F3337B405@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <ie1yieqox7.yie@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <20011201211900.967F637B421@hub.freebsd.org> <20011202015108.75CB337B41C@hub.freebsd.org> <ie1yieqox7.yie@localhost.localdomain>

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Thank you very much.  And, thanks to all who responded.  It seems to be 
updating correctly now.  Soon I'll know if that fixes my problems with make 
in the ports directories.

cvsup wasn't not installed.  So, I had to find it and use pkg_add.  In the 
process, I _think_ I'm beginning to better see the differences between ports 
and packages.  

Once I got cvsup installed, it was just a matter of following your advice and 
the example files (along with the handbook).

The only thing that I really changed from your suggestion was the 
tag=RELENG_4.  I changed mine to tag=RELENG_4_4.  I hope that was OK.

And, btw, I'm not using X on FreeBSD.  I use it on Linux-Mandrake.  But, I 
wanted to keep the FreeBSD box free of extraneous software.

So, assuming that this works out, if I want to put it in a cron, how often 
should I run it?  And, if this updates the sources, do I need to follow it up 
with a pkg_update or something to update the binaries.  

Thanks,
Darren


On Saturday 01 December 2001 09:30 pm, you wrote:
> I don't know about your 2nd CD and I haven't used "cvs", but it's much
> more common to use "cvsup".  You'll need to read about that in the
> handbook, etc, and check out the files in /usr/sup and maybe
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ too.  Takes a while to figure out, natch.
> You probably ought to create a "refuse" file too to avoid DLing all the
> non-English stuff, at least.
>
> You'll probably copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
> to /usr/sup and edit to your liking.  I use something like:
>
> *default host=cvsup8.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default tag=RELENG_4
> *default release=cvs
> *default delete
> *default use-rel-suffix
> #ports-all tag=.
> #doc-all tag=.
> #www tag=.
> src-all
>
> I (un)comment some of the last four lines as desired before doing
> "cvsup /usr/doc/stable-supfile" and hitting the little go icon,
> but if you're not running X, include options "-g -L 2".
> You might as well get "ports-all" too.

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