From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 08:52:10 2003 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 9817A16A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:52:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A262C4400E for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h8MFpuw26162; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:51:56 -0700 From: Kent Stewart To: mrb@bmyster.com, questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:51:55 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <29398.207.5.142.198.1064243892.squirrel@bmyster.com> In-Reply-To: <29398.207.5.142.198.1064243892.squirrel@bmyster.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309220851.55854.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: CVSUP howto ??? 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: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:52:10 -0000 On Monday 22 September 2003 08:18 am, Brent Bailey wrote: > I was looking aroung trying to find a decent howto on CVSUP...seeing > as ive never had good luck with it .. i found this ...does this look > like the right procedure ?? > this is what ive been doing ...but ive only had it actually work one > time ..all other systems ive done this on,,,it has failed BADLY > hence cant do "ps" or "w" or other needed commands > > Create /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/supfile: > *default host=cvsup8.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > src-all > ports-all tag=. > > then let cvs run in crontab and get all the new src... > then did: > > > cd /usr/src > make buildworld > make buildkernel kernconf={kern conf name} > (optional--boot into single user mode) > make installworld > mergemaster -p > > You also have to installkernel before you boot to single user mode. KERNCONF is in caps. If you include your KERNCONF parameters in /etc/ make.conf. You can simply "make kernel". > please help ...as i need to update a whole bunch of systems because > of the latest cert releases... I am one of the people that think ports-all shouldn't be updated at the same frequency as src-all. The reason is that updating ports is most easily accomplished using portupgrade. This requires that you update /usr/ports/INDEX and INDEX.db with every cvsup or ports-all. I update INDEX and INDEX.db on a fast machine and ftp the INDEXes to the slower machines. I use 2 scripts. One updates the INDEXes and the other doesn't. I run the one that doesn't on the slower machines. Kent > > thanx -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html