Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 15:49:50 +0800 (CST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Liu?= <satimis@yahoo.com> To: Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking advice on 'ports-supfile' Message-ID: <20040601074950.85222.qmail@web40307.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040601061940.GA2205@internode.com.au>
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Hi Adam, Tks for your advice. > > FreeBSD-5.2 > > > > I'm seeking for advice on 'ports-supfile' to run > > > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ > > ports-supfile > > > > the second time as at the first time there were > some > > problems > > I don't quite use it this way. > > I use the three files located at > http://www.bugman.cx/cvsup/ and I always > put them in my /etc directory (just for easy > access). Noted > make.conf is empty during a standard FreeBSD > installation, but by putting > (some) of these options in it, you'll be able to > update the ports by cd-ing > to /usr/ports and typing in 'make update'. > > It's way better this way. cat /etc/make.conf MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \ ftp://ftp2.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} MASTER_SORT_REGEX?= ^file: ^ftp://ftp\.FreeBSD\.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/ ://[^/]*\.au/ ://[^/]*\.au\. SUP_UPDATE=yes SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS=-g -L 2 -r 0 SUPHOST=mirror.internode.on.net SUPFILE=/etc/release-supfile PORTSSUPFILE=/etc/ports-supfile WITHOUT_GUI=true WITHOUT_X11=true WITHOUT_CUPS=true 1) Shall I make change to following lines according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?= \ ftp://ftp2.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/ MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?= ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP} MASTER_SORT_REGEX?= ^file: ^ftp://ftp\.FreeBSD\.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/ ://[^/]*\.au/ ://[^/]*\.au\. and SUPHOST=mirror.internode.on.net 2) Shall I make any change to; /etc/ports-supfile /etc/release-supfile Kindly advice. TIA B.R. Stephen _______________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk
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