Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:01:03 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: msoulier@digitaltorque.ca, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> Subject: Re: release in cvsup supfile Message-ID: <200602242301.03799.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060225043521.27585.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060225043521.27585.qmail@web60017.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Friday 24 February 2006 22:35, Peter wrote: > --- Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/24/06, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote: > > > Hey people, > > > > > > I notice that in my supfile, I have this: > > > > > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > > > > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I > > > don't > > > > want > > > > > ports that aren't going to work on 5.4. Is that a concern? > > > > No, but you need to have at least two cvsup files, one for the > > system and the other for ports > > Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I have only one file for > everything: > > *default host=cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > > src-all > doc-all > ports-all tag=. > It works the way you have it. However,You can split that into three files. You're following 5-STABLE, there are times when you don't want to be downloading src, unless you're planning to run buildworld cycles a lot. Instead of cvsuping ports, you could use portsnap. Once it's run the first time, it's a lot, lot faster way to upgrade the ports tree than using cvsup. Don
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