From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 22 21:25:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B537E16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:25:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (mail-gw1.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.246]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D75843D31 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:25:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (ury.york.ac.uk [144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw1.york.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2MLPC9r018816; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:25:12 GMT Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j2MLPBFd038762; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:25:11 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost)j2MLP95x038759; Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:25:11 GMT (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:25:09 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: "Constant, Benjamin" In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050322211220.C36639@ury.york.ac.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk cc: ML - FreeBSD - Stable Subject: Re: Distinct base and ports update ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 21:25:17 -0000 On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Constant, Benjamin wrote: > I'm using cvsup to update my FreeBSD boxes trough a local cvsup mirror that > I cvsup only when only when I want/need because I want to avoid boxes > running different versions of FreeBSD/ports. > > What I would like to do is to update the base and the ports at differents > time intervals. Working with two 'versions' will help me to update my ports > more often (e.g.: security issues) while the base will be updated less often > depending more on my own requirements (except for security and critical > fixes). I'm not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to achieve, but can you not simply use the date option in your supfile to make sure all systems run the exact same checkout? eg, adding something like date=2005.03.22.00.00.00 to your supfile on all the hosts? That way, it doesn't matter if you update your mirror, you'll still be getting the same checkout every time. Just make sure the date you specify is at least a few hours before your last checkout, otherwise you may miss some files which have been committed but which the mirrors between your client and the master sever haven't picked up yet. Gavin