Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:47:32 -0500 From: Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com> To: Andy Akins <andyakins@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSUP and ports Message-ID: <20010312084732.D2706@guinness.osdn.com> In-Reply-To: <016601c0aaf9$85a510e0$e40810ac@ANDY>; from andyakins@earthlink.net on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:37:02AM -0600 References: <016601c0aaf9$85a510e0$e40810ac@ANDY>
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 at 07:37:02 -0600, Andy Akins wrote: > Okay, this is probibly a newibie question...but since I'm a newbie, I > thought I'd ask. If anyone can either answer or point me to some docs > I'd appreciate it. > > I've installed FreeBSD 4.2 from the CDs, and everything is running > great. So then I set up cvsup. I'm not much of a cutting edge person - > so I set my tag to be RELENG_4 to get the stable rather than current > branch. I set up the other parameters, (for example, I'm cvsup'ing my > /usr, not a cvs repository, and I'm refusing the non-english > languages, etc)...and I request src-all, ports-all, and doc-all. > > Well, some of you might know what happened. Cvsup deleted all my > ports. *poof*. > > Looking through the Complete FreeBSD, I discover what I had missed: > that for ports the only relevant tag is ., or CURRENT. > > Now getting the ports back is no big deal - I've got the CDs. But my > question is: how do I keep my ports up to date? You can use /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile. > Do I: > a) Have to be running CURRENT, rather than STABLE? I'd prefer > STABLE...but I really want the up to date ports, especially > X-Free 4, becuase I have an ATI Radeon....or, No, you don't have to run -CURRENT. > b) Do I need two separate cvsup-files...one with a tag of RELENG_4 > for src-all and one with a tag of . for ports-all and doc-all, > and I run cvsup twice.. This will work. Use stable-supfile for the source tree and use ports-supfile for the ports tree. Running cvsup twice isn't a big deal since it only sucks down the changes and won't take too long if you do it regularly. See /usr/share/examples/cvsup for more examples. - jim -- - jim mock <mij@osdn.com> - O|S|D|N - open source development network - - http://www.freebsdzine.org/ - jim@freebsdzine.org - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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