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Date:      Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:07:50 -0600
From:      Jeff Muse <jmuse@kcnet.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NEWBIE: CVSup issues
Message-ID:  <01121212075000.01069@miles.kcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <15383.38368.872930.163154@guru.mired.org>
References:  <15383.38368.872930.163154@guru.mired.org>

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> With later versions of the system, the easiest way is to use the
> examples supfiles directly, and just set the appropriate variables in
> /etc/make.conf:
>
> SUP_UPDATE=     yes
> SUPHOST=        cvsup7.FreeBSD.org
> SUPFILE=        /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
> PORTSSUPFILE=   /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
> DOCSUPFILE=     /usr/share/examples/cvsup/doc-supfile
>
> With those added to /etc/make.conf, you can do "make udpate" in
> /usr/src to update everything, or use the same command in /usr/ports
> to just update the ports tree. If you're not interested in tracking
> the docs tree, don't define DOCSUPFILE.
>
Thanks for clearing that up - make.conf had me a little confused too - 
there's no such critter in linux.

Jeff

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