From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 24 03:58:29 2004 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 4F82416A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:58:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DCA43D48 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:58:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayobrien@worldnet.att.net) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (dsl093-180-184.sac1.dsl.speakeasy.net[66.93.180.184]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004112403581911200mhj7de> (Authid: jayobrien@att.net); Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:58:19 +0000 Message-ID: <41A406D8.20109@att.net> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:58:16 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: CVSup questions 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: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:58:29 -0000 I have a system that right now I'm using to learn FreeBSD. I want to go through the update process that I assume I'll have to follow regularly once the computer is up and running as a web and mail server. Right now I'm not concerned about backups; that's my next project. I'm attempting to follow "Using CVSup" and learn how CVSup works. See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Questions about CVSup: 1. Where should I place supfile? Obviously I could put it anywhere and make it work, but is there a usual place for it? I can't find where the manual makes a suggestion. Do I have a need for more than one supfile? 2. I am running 5.3 RELEASE. It appears that if I specify "*default tag=." that I will be getting updates from "current". Is this what I should do, given that I want to stay current on security and bug fixes, but I don't (at this time) intend to get involved with beta testing? Or should I specify *default tag=RELENG_5_3? And, if I do that, will the ports be updated, including adding new ports? 3. The tutorial at http://www.us-webmasters.com/FreeBSD/Install/ after item 68 describes CVSup. It suggests using the supfile /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile which gets the "ports-all" collection. However, the Using CVSup manual says to get "src-all", that includes ports-all. Is there some reason to use ports-all, not src-all as suggested by the handbook? 4. The tutorial (see 3 above) item 97 concludes, after running cvsup, "FreeBSD is installed, CONGRATULATIONS!" Isn't this a bit premature? It seems to me that at that point I need to rebuild world per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#MAKEWORLD to apply the new files and bring the system up to date. Am I missing something? Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, California, USA