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From: mika ruohotie <bsdisp@shadows.aeon.net>
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Subject: Re: Methods of keeping current with 2.2
In-Reply-To: <199704230749.JAA08506@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> from John Hay at "Apr 23, 97 09:49:52 am"
To: jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:45:59 +0300 (EET DST)
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> > and a somewhat trickier set up involving big Modula-3 libraries etc. 
> > 
> > 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

that's right. the cvsup is still superrior for the task, far more better
than sup ever could be...

and hard to set up? either the said binary, or

cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup
make all install

and there you go after a while. what comes to the cvsupfile, well, it
can not be that hard.

once you've been assimilated to cvsup you dont want to drop it.


mickey