From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 22 13:23: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1269237B491 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:23:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.9.3) id f1MLMsv69272; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:22:54 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102222122.f1MLMsv69272@earth.backplane.com> To: Mike Meyer Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, all@biosys.net Subject: Re: cvsup confusion 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> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message