CVSup supfile<src-all> question

Graham Lillico grez at grumpygoblin.com
Sun Oct 19 10:55:18 PDT 2003


On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:24:49PM -0400, Alden Louis-Pierre wrote:
>    I just finished reading the Handbook for CVSup.  It appears to be a 
> very simple process.  I'm currently running
> FreeBSD 4.8 and from my understanding you can keep your sources up to 
> date via CVSup.  Does this
> mean if I were to do a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 and then CVSup my 
> source all known security issues would
> be resolved for the particular FreeBSD I'm running?  Would the following 
> supfile update all of my sources for
> FreeBSD 4.8?
> 
>   *default tag=RELENG_4_8
>   *default host cvsup3.FreeBSD.org
>   *default prefix=/usr
>   *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
>   *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
>     src-all
> 
You can find some example in /usr/share/examples/cvsup , personally I would
change your last *default line to be the following.

*default  release=cvs
*default  delete use-rel-suffix
*default  compress

Have fun.

Grez..

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