Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:46:11 +1100 From: Alan Garfield <alan@fromorbit.com> To: Juha Saarinen <juhasaarinen@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Subject: Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ?? Message-ID: <1162255571.2980.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <b34be8420610301632mad86020l9df940338a7a5636@mail.gmail.com> References: <20061031104243.4d52a7e0@localhost> <1162254092.2980.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <b34be8420610301632mad86020l9df940338a7a5636@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 13:32 +1300, Juha Saarinen wrote: > On 10/31/06, Alan Garfield <alan@fromorbit.com> wrote: > > I also find that the cvsup6.au.freebsd.org is totally useless. It > > doesn't carry src-all and this effectively makes fastest_cvsup useless > > for me because when I do 'make update' in /usr/src it selects cvs6 and > > fails. > > Hmm, that's Planetmirror, isn't it? Have you tried contacting them? No I haven't had the time really. It's a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things. I generally just manually override SUPHOST if it doesn't work. > > SUP_UPDATE=true > > SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile > > SUP=/usr/local/bin/csup > > SUPFLAGS=-L 2 > > SUPHOST=`/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -q -c au` > > Neat - didn't know you could put it into make.conf like that. Indeed, it makes updating a system really easy. Also I prefer csup over cvsup because it doesn't rely on a stack of dependencies that are otherwise unused on my systems. Cheers, Alan.
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