Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 09:49:52 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> To: ernie@spooky.eis.net.au (Ernie Elu) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Methods of keeping current with 2.2 Message-ID: <199704230749.JAA08506@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199704230031.KAA25315@spooky.eis.net.au> from Ernie Elu at "Apr 23, 97 10:31:17 am"
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> > In the past I used 2.1.5, and once a month cron would fire up SUP to download > source code updates to the -stable tree, and run a make world on each machine. > > Now I beleive SUP is no longer really supported, being replaced with cvsup > and a somewhat trickier set up involving big Modula-3 libraries etc. > I read Jordan's announcement this morning about the daily snaps of 2.2 with > interest which prompted me to write this e-mail. > > My question is what is the most practical method I can use to automate > monthly unattended updates of the 2.2 release? > I'd say use cvsup. If you don't want to hassle with the modula-3 libs, use the one in ftp://hub.freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/cvsup-bin-14.1.1.tar.gz that is statically linked. In the tar file there is also a program that convert a supfile to cvsup config file. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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