From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 14 00:59:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4501116A420 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:59:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacobsm@gate.net) Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB2013C4B2 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:59:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jacobsm@gate.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=gate.net; b=DCXLt2w3TrBSEecxO9RwxYtz2IbhGiIMhQyLjSkMLD04f0t2XObqkiO660uWb+T9; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [208.118.37.69] (helo=[192.168.102.10]) by elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1HH8Ug-0004Uw-DD; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:59:34 -0500 From: Mark Jacobs To: Jerry McAllister In-Reply-To: <20070214005449.GA56167@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <1171410850.44408.5.camel@primary.jacobs.org> <20070214005449.GA56167@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:00:11 -0500 Message-Id: <1171414811.44408.7.camel@primary.jacobs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 191835a16b2172361d074dabd4b36e65fd3b01f1c4139cfbc3932296799267ad667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 208.118.37.69 Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall and packages X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:59:37 -0000 On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 19:54 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:54:10PM -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote: > > > At work I run 6.2 stable and due to firewall problems I cannot download > > packages or port sources using http. > > > > Sysinstall works but I can't figure out the configuration setting to get > > the latest packages and not those at the 6.2 release level. > > > > I tried setting the configuration release name to any, but sysinstall > > never finds the index file on a ftp server. > > > > Any hints? > > Well, I think you should be using CVSUP to update the system. > Is there a reason you can't run that? > In your cvsup control file, you tell it what version to track. > > *default tag=RELENG_6 > or > *default tag=RELENG_6_2 > > would be your tag. Like I said I have firewall problems at work. I can update my ports file fine,but cannot download the source archives using http. > > When you install cvsup, it gives you a sample supfile. > It needs very little change to make it work fine. > You can put your supfile where you want. I put it in /etc > and name it according to the version - eg '/etc/sulfile62' > in this case. > > Below is my whole supfile > It handles both the OS and the ports tree upgrade. > > ////jerry > > > > > Mark Jacobs > > > > > > # $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile,v 1.23.4.2.2.1 2006/05/06 07:41:03 scottl Exp $ > # > # cvsup standard-supfile > # > # If not running X, or invoking cvsup from a non-interactive script, then > # run it as follows: > # > # cvsup -g -L 2 standard-supfile > # > *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default tag=RELENG_6_2 > *default release=cvs > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > *default compress > > ## Main Source Tree. > # The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the "src-all" > # mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "src-*" collections. > src-all > > ports-all tag=. > > doc-all tag=. > >