From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 14:46:55 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 C715716A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:46:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from grog.secure-computing.net (grog.secure-computing.net [63.228.14.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4724E43D41 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 14:46:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-66-41-157-209.mn.client2.attbi.com [66.41.157.209]) (authenticated bits=0)iBIFkr0L004502; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:46:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ecrist@secure-computing.net) In-Reply-To: <41C3D180.7050009@adelphia.net> References: <41C34B76.10402@adelphia.net> <200412171458.49058.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <200412171532.16777.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <41C3D180.7050009@adelphia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Apple-Mail-6-519915839" Message-Id: <8CD369D4-5103-11D9-9BE2-000D9333E43C@secure-computing.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric F Crist Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 08:46:07 -0600 To: Kevin Smith X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: Joshua Tinnin 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 14:46:55 -0000 --Apple-Mail-6-519915839 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Dec 18, 2004, at 12:43 AM, Kevin Smith wrote: > Thanks for the tips. For the moment, I'm leaving the OS sources alone > and I'm updating the ports collection because my goal is to update > gnome to version 2.8. The OS seems to be fine - although I'm sure > there are additional bug fixes I can benefit from - but I'm a little > scared to go through the build kernel/world thing right now - > especially since everything is running nicely. (I have not had the OS > crash in the 2 months since I've installed it - it has run continously > -yet my linux 2.6 installation crashed regularly). > > I do have a few additional questions... > > 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. > > 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. > > 3) After my cvsup of the ports collection completes updating, is there > any easy way to check which ports were updated ? In answer to your second question, the tag you're probably looking for is RELENG_5_3_RELEASE. This tag will maintain your 5.3 version number, but you'll get any bug fixes for that branch and security fixes. I would strongly recommend you use the RELENG_5_3 tag as this will allow you to do minor upgrades (from 5.3 to 5.3.1, for example). This will give you the best option, as you remain in the 5.3 branch, but you benefit from all the available improvements and bug fixes. HTH _______________________________________________________ Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!" Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson --Apple-Mail-6-519915839 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: This is a digitally signed message part content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAkHEQq8ACgkQRAAY9knOW+p7DACfdkS68rtfCPlOZf1pZdL0AvNJ zp4AnRWdmefTWe2vKn1bZsB3PQjT87wr =kK/Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-6-519915839--