Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:19:46 +0900 From: "Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai" <maverick31337@vfemail.net> To: Tom Trelvik <ttt@cwru.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release Message-ID: <425587D2.4040404@vfemail.net> In-Reply-To: <42558243.2090601@cwru.edu> References: <425574CE.8000105@vfemail.net> <42558243.2090601@cwru.edu>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Trelvik wrote: > Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote: > >> *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default >> prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete >> use-rel-suffix >> >> src-all > > > I don't think you want "tag=." as the default. That would put you > the most current sources for the OS, which may have plenty of > transient issues you don't want to have to deal with. > > I use the following supfile regularly. You can see that I set the > default tag to RELENG_5_3 which is basically the original release > of 5.3 plus security updates > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html). > I do that because these are servers that I try to keep as stable > as possible. For a personal system, you may prefer to use RELENG_5 > to get something more up to date, without being the bleeding edge > of CVS updates. You can also see that I specify a different tag to > grab for ports, so that I can get the updates on them. > > *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default > prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 *default delete > use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. > > Good luck, > > Tom ____________ Thanks all. It's simpler than I expected!! I got it to work!!! - -- Tetsuji 'Maverick' Rai PGP Key fingerprint = 2021 6BF9 CEA3 73DE FF17 B326 F4DA F04E F784 3B85 gpg fingerprint Aviation Jokes: http://www.geocities.com/tetsuji_rai/ Profile http://maverick.ns1.name/ http://maverick.IsASecret.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCVYfS9NrwTveEO4URAgk/AJ9E2Vb2sVj4I1R/YywbMBTFiP4JsQCgg0pI 78D//IeSb3/DtXUEIiz3ujg= =RufJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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