From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 16:10:47 2002 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 21E5737B406 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB2A43E4A for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:10:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.167] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id A5A0881601FE; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 18:09:20 -0500 Message-ID: <009e01c26f1e$e80774e0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" To: , References: <200210081920.g98JKBw58996@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Subject: Re: Safe Use of cvsup Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 17:52:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can't think of anything offhand. However, using an incorrect tag is not a great problem, IMO, because generally there's nothing under /usr/src that can't be replaced by fixing the supfile and running cvsup again. I have on several occasions just done this: $cd /usr $rm -rf src $cvsup /stable-supfile The quid pro quo here, I guess, is that I keep my kernconfs and my supfiles copied to / Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin McCormick" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:20 PM Subject: Safe Use of cvsup > If one uses an incorrect tag in cvsup, it tends to > destroy the /usr/src tree, a sort of make zapworld. Would there > be anything wrong with backing up the /usr/src directory to a tar > file before running cvsup so that if the worst happens, one can > restore the directory to what it was before the mishap? > > I am building a new FreeBSD system from a CDROM that is a > bit out of date so I need to upgrade it after installation. > > The only thing I was thinking of was that there might be > links or something else not obvious that would make the restored > /usr/src useless. > > Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK > OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Network Operations Group > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message