From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 18 22:15:13 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 ABB6916A4CE for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:15:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449EA43D41 for ; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:15:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:18:51 -0500 Message-ID: <4123D4EC.9020905@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:15:08 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Curtis Vaughan References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Aug 2004 22:18:51.0654 (UTC) FILETIME=[575A2260:01C48571] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using cvsup 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, 18 Aug 2004 22:15:13 -0000 Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I'm a little confused about using cvsup. I'm referring to 2 > resources (The Complete FreeBSD - 4th edition, and > www,freebsd.org manual for cvsup). BTW, I currently have FreeBSD 4.8 > installed. > > Ok, so, I know I need to edit a supfile and I have found > all the examples. But it seems to me that it is advisable to > put my own edited supfile in a particular directory. > What is the best or more common practice? > Maybe in the base directory: i.e., /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ ? > > Note that I will not be using the gui. I have not installed > X windows (XFree86) as this is to be a server and I no > intention of using any gui interface. Hi, Curtis ... As a courtesy to others who are maybe not running a GUI, (perhaps reading via the CLI with mutt, etc.) it is a good practice to wrap your mail lines at about 72-80 characters in mail to the FreeBSD lists (AAMOF, probably good practice for all mail..) I can't say what's common, nor best, but I'd think the answer is "wherever works for you." Probably your $HOME, so the command would be (assuming your in your $HOME): %cvsup stable-supfile In my case, I put it at / --- since I have to be root or use sudo anyway, the command is then: %cvsup /stable-supfile Works for me. One thing you want to watch out for; periodically categories in the ports tree are added, changed, or removed, so you usually need to have a current copy of the ports-supfile in whatever location you choose.... HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. But whatever works for you would be fine.