From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 20:16:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C585B16A41F; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:16:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE4EC43D48; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:16:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.50.40.201] (Not Verified[10.50.40.201]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:31:09 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: Colin Percival Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:15:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200508190356.j7J3uj5D095435@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508221357.05742.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <430A24F3.3080505@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <430A24F3.3080505@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508221615.37569.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:16:04 -0000 On Monday 22 August 2005 03:18 pm, Colin Percival wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > On Saturday 20 August 2005 04:52 pm, Colin Percival wrote: > >>I'm not building a release; I'm building and installing a new world and > >>kernel. For FreeBSD Update, I need the actual files which people will > >> have installed on their systems, not the ISO images and FTP install > >> tree. > > > > You can extract the dists to build the trees as well. I did this > > recently to update ~1200 boxes over a one-way satellite link. :) This > > would also let you not require that people install a fixed-set of > > distributions but let them subscribe to multiple distribution sets if > > desired since you can recreate any configuration by extracting the > > appropriate set of dists into a work area. > > I don't require that people install a fixed set of distributions. In older > releases people can specify which "branch" of the release they want > (crypto, nocrypto, krb4, krb5) because there are multiple versions of some > files, but in recent releases there's only one version of each file, and > FreeBSD Update just updates whatever it finds. So how does it know when to add a new file? For example, if I didn't install the man dist and a new program is added, will it include both the new program and the manpage or just the new program? -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org