Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 20:00:11 -0500 From: Mark Jacobs <jacobsm@gate.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall and packages Message-ID: <1171414811.44408.7.camel@primary.jacobs.org> In-Reply-To: <20070214005449.GA56167@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <1171410850.44408.5.camel@primary.jacobs.org> <20070214005449.GA56167@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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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=. > >
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