From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 7 19:19:51 2005 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 2A66916A4CE for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 19:19:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.11.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F52843D69 for ; Thu, 7 Apr 2005 19:19:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from maverick31337@vfemail.net) Received: from unknown (HELO ?219.197.212.112?) (fcknroll2@219.197.212.112 with plain) by smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Apr 2005 19:19:48 -0000 Message-ID: <425587D2.4040404@vfemail.net> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:19:46 +0900 From: "Tetsuji \"Maverick\" Rai" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050401 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Trelvik References: <425574CE.8000105@vfemail.net> <42558243.2090601@cwru.edu> In-Reply-To: <42558243.2090601@cwru.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release 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: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:19:51 -0000 -----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-----