cvs-supfile?

Adam adam at jamradar.com
Tue Dec 21 21:34:15 PST 2004


> 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.
>
> - jt


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

Thanks



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