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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:49 +0200 (CEST)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= <Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no>
To:        Ed Flecko <edflecko@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn checkout "head" or "stable"
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1209280014410.2700@mail.fig.ol.no>
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On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:03-0700, Ed Flecko wrote:

> My goal is to simply have a production server that's fully patched,
> but I will be running custom kernels (which is why I'm not using
> freebsd-update). I've seen a lot of subversion references to checking
> out the "head" branch and the "stable" branch.
> 
> I understand the "head" branch is the most current, so that's the same
> as the "current" branch, right?
> 
> If I understand correctly, "most" people will not follow the "current"
> branch for production servers.
> 
> My goal is to have all of the files I need to rebuild my kernel and my
> system after security updates have been released, therefore I should
> do something like:
> 
> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src
> 
> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/stable/9 /usr/ports

The ports tree resides in ports/head no matter what branch from the 
main source tree you check out, i.e.:

svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/ports/head /usr/ports

> svn co svn://svn.freebsd.org/doc/stable/9 /usr/doc
> 
> This will give me everything I need to recompile and have a fully
> patched system, right?
> 
> I do not make changes to the src, ports, or doc directories. From that
> point forward, as new security patches are released, I can simply:
> 
> svn up /usr/src
> 
> svn up /usr/ports
> 
> svn up /usr/doc
> 
> and once again rebuild my kernel and system.
> 
> Does this sound correct?

Yes.

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