From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Aug 9 12:22: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E1737B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:21:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2D943E70 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 12:21:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([62.49.21.186]) by anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #2) id 17dFKf-0005wu-0U; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 20:21:57 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:20:42 +0100 To: Jim McAtee Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: Using CVSup References: <019d01c23fd7$2d44d740$272fa8ce@jim> <01c101c23fd8$78b4b5f0$272fa8ce@jim> In-Reply-To: <01c101c23fd8$78b4b5f0$272fa8ce@jim> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Someone, quite probably Jim McAtee, once wrote: >Shoot, I just noticed this at the URL I gave below: > >----------------- >RELENG_4 > The line of development for FreeBSD-4.X, also known as FreeBSD-STABLE. >----------------- > >So, is -STABLE considered the "latest, safest, bug-fixed" version, or is >RELEASE a safer bet? It kind of depends on what you're doing with the machine and how confident you feel, along with a whole host of other factors. If you've never rebuilt your system before then a release is probably a better place to start as it's been through more testing. Then if your needs suit start tracking -stable, subscribe to the list and make sure most people can compile and install a system and then try yourself. 98% of the time it will be just like a release upgrade, but they make less promises with -stable. Btw, I tend to have separate supfiles for my ports and src. Basically I just do it because I'm far more likely to want to update my ports than I am the rest of my machine and I always like to make sure that the contents of /usr/src are basically the same as what I have installed. It makes patches easier in certain cases and such. Kevin >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jim McAtee" >To: >Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 1:01 PM >Subject: Using CVSup > > >> I'm attempting to learn how to use CVSup to update my system, including >> source and ports. When I installed BSD on the test system I'm playing >with, >> I installed no source and no ports at the time. >> >> Here's my supfile: >> >> *default host=cvsup8.freebsd.org >> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup >> *default prefix=/usr >> *default release=cvs >> *default deltee use-rel-suffix >> *default tag=RELEN_4_6_1_RELEASE >> src-all >> *default tag=. >> ports-all >> doc-all >> >> First question I have (DUMB question): What version do I want to download? >> I think I understand the difference between STABLE and CURRENT, but I'm >> unsure of their relationship to RELEASE version tags. If the following >tags >> are the only ones available: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html >> >> then how would you update to the latest STABLE? Or would I want to? >> >> Second, is there a simple means of constructing a refuse file which will >not >> download non-English versions of anything? >> >> Jim > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message