cvsup from 4.11-RELEASE to 4.11-RELEASE-p1 28,000 errors

[Andreas Rudisch]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 11:22 +0200, Andreas Rudisch wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 23:43 -0700, Leland wrote:
> > I have got to be doing someting wrong, it is right in front of me and I just
> > don't seel it.
> > Hope someone can help, thanks.
> > 
> > >From a clean install of 4.11-RELEASE with All Distributions,
> > cvsup-without-gui was then installed from ports.
> > 
> > cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile  will produce src-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_4_11
> > with 8310752 bytes
> > and more than 28,000 lines starting with "C src/...."
> > 
> > Here is my cvs-supfile:
> > *default host=cvsup9.us.FreeBSD.org
> > *default tag=RELENG_4_11
> > *default date=2005.03.28.15.57.00
> > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> > *default prefix=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> > *default release=cvs
> > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> > *default compress
> > src-all
> > ports-all
> > doc-all
> > cvsroot-all
> > 
> 
> Do not mix ports and source, it is always better to use two seperated
> supfiles for each. Take a look in here:
> 
>   /usr/share/examples/cvsup/
> 
> I am not sure why you want to use a date. If you only want to update to
> the security branch of FreeBSD 4.11 you do not need it.
> 
> Here as an example my supfiles for 5.4 to give you an idea.
> 
> ports-supfile:
> 
> *default host=cvsup.no.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> ports-all
>
>
> security-supfile:
> 
> #cvsupfile for 5.4-security
> *default host=cvsup.no.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> src-all

If you really want to get FreeBSD 4.11-p1, then adding the date was correct.
*default date=2005.03.28.15.57.00 (with RELENG_4_11 of course).


> The tag is important, for ports it is always '.', which means you will
> always get the latest version. If you use this tag for the source tree
> too, then you will end up getting the latest -CURRENT version, the
> development branch.
> 
> The -STABLE branch only uses the release number, e.g. RELENG_4 would be
> FreeBSD 4-STABLE. The -SECURITY branch, you want to get, has an
> additional number added, RELENG_4_11.
> 
> For further information you should read this:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html


Andreas

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