config is out of sinc

[Kent Stewart]

On Wednesday 26 May 2004 10:19 pm, Earl Larsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2004 11:39 pm, Kent Stewart wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 May 2004 09:10 pm, Earl Larsen wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 26 May 2004 10:59 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:23:03PM -0500, Earl Larsen wrote:
> > > > > > Read the documentation to find out what the "tag=." does
> > > > > > ;-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Kris
> > > > >
> > > > > So I should edit my cvsupfile to read as the fallowing:
> > > > >
> > > > > *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
> > > > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> > > > > *default prefix=/usr
> > > > > *default tag=RELENG_4_9_RELEASE
> > > > > *default date=2003.10.28
> > > > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix
> > > > > *default compress
> > > > > src-all date=.
> > > > > ports-all tag=.
> > > > > doc-all tag=.
> > > > > cvsroot-all date=.
> > > > >
> > > > > And it will update all of 4.9 as 4.9? To update my system
> > > > > corectly. Should I run mergmaster, after cvsed the system.
> > > > > Since I ran mergmaster with the incorrect files.
> > > >
> > > > No, you're way off.  See the sample configuration files, and
> > > > read the documentation on cvsup in the handbook.
> > > >
> > > > Kris
> > >
> > > Where is the sample config files located?
> >
> > /usr/share/examples/cvsup
> >
> > Kent
>
> Ok I did a little more research on making the cvsupfile. And to make
> my system up to date for everything for 4.9(stable). Please correct
> me if I am wrong. Will be the fallowing:
>
> default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> src-all
> ports-all tag=.
> doc-all tag=.
> cvsroot-all

Keep your supfile simple like the examples and don't include features 
such as cvsroot-all that you don't understand the side effects. If you 
want a local mirror, install cvsup-mirror but you need to understand 
the consequences of what you are doing before you try that. 

The current cvsup-mirror is over 2GB and you are going to download all 
of it. /usr/src for RELENG_4 is around 300MB and that is much easier to 
deal with than a 2GB system that you still need to run cvsup or cvs 
against to use. Since you are already asking for src-all, you just 
quadrupled the amount of data you are going to transfer each time you 
run cvsup.

I use a cvsup script for each of those processes (src-all, ports-all, 
and doc-all) because I don't believe they need to be updated at the 
same frequency. I have a local mirror and feed 6 other computers from 
it. I think the break even point is 2 and you don't see any gain until 
you have more than 3. If you install a mirror on a single computer, you 
are downloading everything for all of the branch tags.

>
> What would change for 4.9 current? I am a little confused on the
> difference of RELENG_4_9 and RELENG_4_9_0_RELEASE. Is the first one
> for stable systems, and the later one for current systems?

You need to read about the branch tags on
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

RELENG_4 is stable, which is now going by the name 4.10-STABLE. There is 
now a RELENG_4_10_0_RELEASE, which never changes, and RELENG_4_10, 
which is only updated with critical fixes and security advisories.

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html