From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 22:19:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 209AD106564A for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:19:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no (smtp.fagskolen.gjovik.no [IPv6:2001:700:1100:1:200:ff:fe00:b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CCE8FC0C for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.fig.ol.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q8RMJnbs002724 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) Received: from localhost (trond@localhost) by mail.fig.ol.no (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) with ESMTP id q8RMJnMs002721; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from trond@fagskolen.gjovik.no) X-Authentication-Warning: mail.fig.ol.no: trond owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:49 +0200 (CEST) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Trond_Endrest=F8l?= Sender: Trond.Endrestol@fagskolen.gjovik.no To: Ed Flecko In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) Organization: Fagskolen Innlandet OpenPGP: url=http://fig.ol.no/~trond/trond.key MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="2055831798-641855074-1348784389=:2700" X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on mail.fig.ol.no Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: svn checkout "head" or "stable" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:19:54 -0000 This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --2055831798-641855074-1348784389=:2700 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT 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. -- +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Vennlig hilsen, | Best regards, | | Trond Endrestøl, | Trond Endrestøl, | | IT-ansvarlig, | System administrator, | | Fagskolen Innlandet, | Gjøvik Technical College, Norway, | | tlf. mob. 952 62 567, | Cellular...: +47 952 62 567, | | sentralbord 61 14 54 00. | Switchboard: +47 61 14 54 00. | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------+ --2055831798-641855074-1348784389=:2700--