From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Apr 23 00:51:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14292 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:51:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA14284 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:51:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08506; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 09:49:52 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199704230749.JAA08506@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Methods of keeping current with 2.2 In-Reply-To: <199704230031.KAA25315@spooky.eis.net.au> from Ernie Elu at "Apr 23, 97 10:31:17 am" To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 09:49:52 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > In the past I used 2.1.5, and once a month cron would fire up SUP to download > source code updates to the -stable tree, and run a make world on each machine. > > Now I beleive SUP is no longer really supported, being replaced with cvsup > and a somewhat trickier set up involving big Modula-3 libraries etc. > I read Jordan's announcement this morning about the daily snaps of 2.2 with > interest which prompted me to write this e-mail. > > My question is what is the most practical method I can use to automate > monthly unattended updates of the 2.2 release? > I'd say use cvsup. If you don't want to hassle with the modula-3 libs, use the one in ftp://hub.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/cvsup-bin-14.1.1.tar.gz that is statically linked. In the tar file there is also a program that convert a supfile to cvsup config file. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za