Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:19:48 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: <chael@southgate.ph.inter.net>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CVSup to local copy Message-ID: <p06002046bbfec50b935a@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <003901c3c04b$4842bf80$fe01a8c0@JMICH> References: <003901c3c04b$4842bf80$fe01a8c0@JMICH>
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At 9:00 AM +0800 12/12/03, <chael@southgate.ph.inter.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need to update the sources of several servers in my network.
>I have already made a cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile on one of the
>servers and placed all under /home/ncvs.
I assume that /home/ncvs is a directory that is NFS-exported
to all of your machines?
Btw, you do not have to put your local copy of the CVS repository
at /home/ncvs, even though that is the directory used for the
master copy. However, you *do* want it to be on some directory
which is "local" to each of your machines (local as far as CVS
is concerned, I mean). NFS-mounted is fine, I believe, but you
do not want to do 'cvs remote' operations with a repository the
size of FreeBSD.
>Would anyone be so kind to tell me what to do next? Can't
>seem to find the concrete steps on the net.
On each machine, log into root and:
First, create a ~/.cvsrc file with at least the following
two lines in it:
checkout -P
update -d -P
And then you can:
cd /usr
rm -Rf src
cvs -d /home/ncvs checkout -r BLAH src
where the value of 'BLAH' will depend on which release you
want to run on that system. RELENG_4 for "stable", for
instance. Or RELENG_4_9 for the 4.9-"security" branch.
Or RELENG_5 for the more-daring "current" branch.
Then you can 'cd /usr/src' and follow the standard
instructions for building from source. Strictly speaking you
don't *have* to do the above as userid root, but you will have
to do the 'make installkernel' and 'make installworld' steps
as root. You will want that ~/.cvsrc file in whatever userid
you use for checking-out or updating the src via 'cvs'.
Later on, when you want to update some system, you can just
cd /usr/src
cvs update
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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