From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 30 06:58:52 2005 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 2FEB016A4CE for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:58:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA5C43D41 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:58:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pergesu@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 58so59414wri for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:58:51 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=MOKRCnqz6Bt74L4XnckXaUWR/PEDPS7kNKFMyxrkbqKBv0SeBu25xqaQa+qC8JEaLv/mE2iPepinc5QKp3hy5PVIeVsllnz4zP/Tcp/M2vk6Q6aesrpI6aGUi77aHQ9sgKxNGma2vD1tlZB+BUT7Y6Pn6EW3AgQtb+vUgevkMjg= Received: by 10.54.43.78 with SMTP id q78mr217642wrq; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:58:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.42.47 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:58:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <810a540e05012922586675b488@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:58:50 -0700 From: Pat Maddox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <41FB6685.5040407@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <810a540e050129021110164a6a@mail.gmail.com> <41FB6685.5040407@mail.ru> Subject: Re: I only want stable software X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Pat Maddox List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:58:52 -0000 Thanks for the help there. I just followed the example in the Handbook, though to be honest I'm not quite sure what everything means. Here's my ports-upfile: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all What updates will I be getting with this? I want to be able to keep my system up to date, and I want to have a lot of the new software, but I don't want to be introducing unstable software into my system. I want to be able to keep up with PHP and Apache2 as fixes come out, but I don't want any experimental stuff running, if that makes sense. Hope you guys can lend a hand. On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:33:41 +0300, Andrew P. wrote: > Pat Maddox wrote: > > I used CVSUP to keep my system up to date. How do I know that it's > > not installing unstable software? I want to keep my software stable, > > but not in the version branching sense. I just don't want it crashing > > my server at all. Is there any way to ensure that I only install high > > quality stable software? > > > > You should use RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_5_3 tags to have cvsup download > security patches only. It's probably the most reliable way to keep your > system as stable as it gets. Just use the following line in your cvsup > supfile: > > src-all tag=RELENG_5_3 > > You could use tag=. for doc-all, and you should use it for ports-all. > > Best wishes, > Andrew P. >