Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, all@biosys.net Subject: Re: cvsup confusion Message-ID: <200102222122.f1MLMsv69272@earth.backplane.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010221054413.00c443a0@64.7.7.83> <4.3.2.7.2.20010221203901.00c8fd48@64.7.7.83> <200102221646.f1MGk3J27698@vashon.polstra.com> <14997.31882.693873.985415@guru.mired.org>
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I just do this every night. A 'crontab -e' as root suffices to install
the entries. I've never found the need to create a custom cvsup file,
the one in examples works just fine. The log level will list edits cvsup
makes.
42 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
42 5 * * * /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
No muss, no fuss. Works great over a modem once you've synced up.
Alternatively, if I'm tracking the CVS tree:
42 4 * * * /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -r 20 -L 2 -h cvsup.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile
--
In regards to /etc/periodic... no, it is not a good idea to put a
default cvsup in there. A good chunk of installations don't need to
run it.. for example, for Backplane (and for BEST, and for home as well),
I have one machine doing the cvsup's and then I export /usr/src and
/usr/obj to the others read-only, allowing me to buildworld on the
one machine and then installworld on all the others. It works
unbelivably well.
-Matt
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