Sysinstall and packages

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:00:11PM -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote:

> 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.
> > > 
  .....
> > > 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.

I don't think it uses http. 
I think it uses ftp - even handles passive ftp which is needed
for some firewall situations.
I never looked closely.  

////jerry

> > 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=.
> > 
> > 
>