CVSup to local copy

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 9:00 AM +0800 12/12/03, <chael at southgate.ph.inter.net> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I need to update the sources of several servers in my network.
>I have already made a cvsup -g -L 2 cvs-supfile on one of the
>servers and placed all under /home/ncvs.

I assume that /home/ncvs is a directory that is NFS-exported
to all of your machines?

Btw, you do not have to put your local copy of the CVS repository
at /home/ncvs, even though that is the directory used for the
master copy.  However, you *do* want it to be on some directory
which is "local" to each of your machines (local as far as CVS
is concerned, I mean).  NFS-mounted is fine, I believe, but you
do not want to do 'cvs remote' operations with a repository the
size of FreeBSD.

>Would anyone be so kind to tell me what to do next? Can't
>seem to find the concrete steps on the net.

On each machine, log into root and:

First, create a ~/.cvsrc file with at least the following
two lines in it:
   checkout -P
   update -d -P

And then you can:
   cd /usr
   rm -Rf src
   cvs -d /home/ncvs checkout -r BLAH src

where the value of 'BLAH' will depend on which release you
want to run on that system.  RELENG_4 for "stable", for
instance.  Or RELENG_4_9 for the 4.9-"security" branch.
Or RELENG_5 for the more-daring "current" branch.

Then you can 'cd /usr/src' and follow the standard
instructions for building from source.  Strictly speaking you
don't *have* to do the above as userid root, but you will have
to do the 'make installkernel' and 'make installworld' steps
as root.  You will want that ~/.cvsrc file in whatever userid
you use for checking-out or updating the src via 'cvs'.

Later on, when you want to update some system, you can just
    cd /usr/src
    cvs update

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu