From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 09:21:35 2004 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 606DE16A4CF for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from MXR-3.estpak.ee (ld1.estpak.ee [194.126.101.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF04D43D55 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:21:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: from [80.235.60.138] (80-235-60-138-dsl.trt.estpak.ee [80.235.60.138]) by MXR-3.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AECABEAEF; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:21:26 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <41C3F66C.7050008@raad.tartu.ee> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:20:44 +0200 From: Toomas Aas User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0RC1 (X11/20041207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Smith References: <41C34B76.10402@adelphia.net> <200412171458.49058.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <200412171532.16777.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <41C3D180.7050009@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <41C3D180.7050009@adelphia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at neti.ee cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup newbie questions 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: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:21:35 -0000 Kevin Smith wrote: > 1) is there a test utility that I can run that will tell me which cvsup > mirror server will be fastest ? I did this the manual way by pinging a > few and looking at the ave times coming back. There's a port out there called fastest_cvsup which is supposed to do exactly that. Personally I've never used it so I can't give any further comments. > 2) If I do update (src-all) using 5.3-RELENG tag is my version still > called 5.3-RELEASE ? - or is it now some new release of that (ie like > 5.3.1 ?)...I guess my question is: Are all updates of 5.3-RELEASE > source still called 5.3-RELEASE. If you use RELENG_5_3 tag, you'll get 5.3-RELEASE-pN where N is a number which increases with every security update. Right now you would get 5.3-RELEASE-p2. If you use RELENG_5, you'll get 5.N-STABLE, where N is a number which increases after every release from the RELENG_5 branch. Right now you would get 5.3-STABLE. > 3) After my cvsup of the ports collection completes updating, is there > any easy way to check which ports were updated ? Using portupgrade you can check which of the ports you have installed were updated. But again, since I personally don't use portupgrade, I can't give you any furhter details on that. There should be more than you want to know about it in the list archives.