Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 15:34:23 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: First time running cvsup Message-ID: <20040511153423.4b45bf43@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040511121048.56797.qmail@web40307.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040511111255.1cd076a3@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> <20040511121048.56797.qmail@web40307.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 11 May 2004 20:10:48 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Ion, > > Tks for your advice. > > Freebsd5.2 > ======== > > - snip - > > > I use 3 cvsup files: one fot the ports, one for the > > docs and one for the > > system (src). This way I can update ports and docs > > more often and be > > sure the system had known-to-be-working sources (I'm > > on -CURRENT). > > Noted with tks > > > My /etc/ports-supfile is: > > *default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/usr > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > ports-all > > What will be the difference between > *default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > and > *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org Only that you will use another cvsup server. > > (Don't refuse categories in ports, when you'll try > > to `make index` I > > will fail from time to time ). > > Could you please explain above in more detail. Tks You can choose to update only a part of the ports collection, either by using cvsup refuse files or by specifying "sub"-collections in the cvsup file. See the end of the /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile for those. However 9 of 10 posts on ports@ regarding failed `make index` are because the poster has a partially cvsup'ed ports collection and because of that he runs into trouble. The time difference is not big; the INDEX-5 file on your system keeps track of ports and their dependencies and is by various pkg_* directly and port* tools indirectly. Also if you want a fast cvsup use `cvsup -s supfile` ; "-s" wound make cvsup to do less checks on you machine and the time will be significantly smaller; but from time to time do a "complete" cvsup (I do it before building the index). -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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