Re: Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release

From: Tetsuji \ (maverick31337_at_vfemail.net)
Date: 04/07/05

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    Chris wrote:

    > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Tom Trelvik wrote:
    >
    >> Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote:
    >>
    >>> *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db
    >>> *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete
    >>> use-rel-suffix
    >>>
    >>> src-all
    >>
    >>
    >> I don't think you want "tag=." as the default. That would put
    >> you the most current sources for the OS, which may have plenty of
    >> transient issues you don't want to have to deal with.
    >>
    >> I use the following supfile regularly. You can see that I set
    >> the default tag to RELENG_5_3 which is basically the original
    >> release of 5.3 plus security updates
    >> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html).
    >> I do that because these are servers that I try to keep as stable
    >> as possible. For a personal system, you may prefer to use
    >> RELENG_5 to get something more up to date, without being the
    >> bleeding edge of CVS updates. You can also see that I specify a
    >> different tag to grab for ports, so that I can get the updates on
    >> them.
    >>
    >> *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default
    >> prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 *default delete
    >> use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=.
    >>
    >> Good luck,
    >>
    >
    > If I'm not mistaken, he did mention the ports supfile. What I gave
    > him (assuming he only wants one supfile for ports, and one for src)
    > is simply that.
    >
    > It's a very basic, to the point supfile. He needs nothing more then
    > what I posted. The above reflects (to me atleast) the makings of a
    > supfile for gathering the src tree.
    >
    > Perhaps I read him wrong, perhaps I took for granted he only wanted
    > a ports supfile. If I'm right, then what I gave him is all he
    > needs. He does not need to be muddied with thigs that have zero to
    > do with supping the ports tree.
    >
    >
    > Best regards, Chris
    >
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    Don't mind, I made independent supfiles for ports and src. It's much
    easier than I expected..I wonder why I coundn't find a solution with
    google.

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