cvs-supfile?

[Joshua Tinnin]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 10:08:30PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:33:57PM -0600, Adam wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:11:35PM -0600, Adam wrote:
> > > > My cvs-supifle look like
> > > >
> > > > *default host=cvsup1.us.freebsd.org
> > > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> > > > *default prefix=/usr
> > > > *default tag=RELENG_5_3
> > > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> > > >
> > > > I just want core security updates to FreeBSD and no new ports.  Will
> > this
> > > > just update the FreeBSD operating systems?
> > >
> > > Yes, as long as you don't have ports selected, like if you had ports-all
> > > in the same file with that tag, you'd end up deleting your ports tree,
> > > because the ports collection doesn't use the same tag. BTW, if you update
> > > ports with cvsup, it will just update the Makefiles and patches, not the
> > > actual ports installed as packages on your system. You might have known
> > > that, but thought it would be worth mentioning.
> > 
> > I didn't know, how would I change it so it would also update with patches
> > and makefiles?
> > 
> > *default host=cvsup1.us.freebsd.org
> > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default tag=RELENG_5_3
> > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> 
> If you want to update your ports tree at the same time as the source,
> put this in the file:
> 
> ports-all tag=.
> ports-all

I'm sorry, actually you should just have ports-all tag=. Messed up when
I was editing it. If you have both, you will probably delete the ports
tree, because ports-all without a tag will use the default tag, which is
for a release and not ports. Mea culpa.

- jt 

> You should also have:
> 
> src-all
> 
> in the file in order to download all the source for FreeBSD. Just to
> clarify, ports-all will download all changes to the ports tree, or it
> will put it on your /usr/ports directory if it's not there yet, and
> src-all will download all the source for the FreeBSD OS you specify in
> the tag, or changes to it if it's already there. After you have
> downloaded changes to the ports tree, you have to make or fetch a new
> INDEX in oder to use it to install or upgrade ports. The simplest way to
> do this is to issue these commands as root:
> 
> cd /usr/ports && make fetchindex && portsdb -u
> 
> Much of this is also explained in the handbook, which is an excellent 
> resource.
> 
> You might also want to look into portupgrade and related tools. A good
> tutorial is here:
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html