Sysinstall and packages

[Mark Jacobs]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 19:54 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:54:10PM -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote:
> 
> > At work I run 6.2 stable and due to firewall problems I cannot download
> > packages or port sources using http.
> > 
> > Sysinstall works but I can't figure out the configuration setting to get
> > the latest packages and not those at the 6.2 release level.
> > 
> > I tried setting the configuration release name to any, but sysinstall
> > never finds the index file on a ftp server.
> > 
> > Any hints?
> 
> Well, I think you should be using CVSUP to update the system.
> Is there a reason you can't run that?  
> In your cvsup control file, you tell it what version to track.
> 
>   *default tag=RELENG_6
> or
>   *default tag=RELENG_6_2
> 
> would be your tag.

Like I said I have firewall problems at work. I can update my ports file
fine,but cannot download the source archives using http.

> 
> When you install cvsup, it gives you a sample supfile.
> It needs very little change to make it work fine.
> You can put your supfile where you want.  I put it in /etc
> and name it according to the version - eg  '/etc/sulfile62'
> in this case.
> 
> Below is my whole supfile
> It handles both the OS and the ports tree upgrade.
> 
> ////jerry
> 
> > 
> > Mark Jacobs
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> # $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile,v 1.23.4.2.2.1 2006/05/06 07:41:03 scottl Exp $
> #
> #       cvsup standard-supfile
> #
> # If not running X, or invoking cvsup from a non-interactive script, then
> # run it as follows:
> #
> #       cvsup -g -L 2 standard-supfile
> #
> *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default tag=RELENG_6_2
> *default release=cvs
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> 
> *default compress
> 
> ## Main Source Tree.
> # The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the "src-all"
> # mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual "src-*" collections.
> src-all
> 
> ports-all tag=.
> 
> doc-all tag=.
> 
>