csup vs freebsd-update

[Andrei Brezan]

Adam Vande More wrote:
> Andrei Brezan wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>     I have a strange problem with csup and freebsd-update. I'm using
>> 7.0-RELEASE-p11. If i do:
>>
>> # freebsd-update fetch
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org...
>> done.
>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Inspecting system... done.
>> Preparing to download files... done.
>>
>> No updates needed to update system to 7.0-RELEASE-p11.
>>
>> All seems ok, i'm up to date.
>>
>> But if i do:
>> # csup -L 2 ./standard-supfile
>> Parsing supfile "./standard-supfile"
>> Connecting to cvsup.hu.FreeBSD.org
>> Connected to 193.6.222.7
>> Server software version: SNAP_16_1h
>> Negotiating file attribute support
>> Exchanging collection information
>> Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection
>> Running
>> Updating collection src-all/cvs
>>  Checkout src/contrib/lukemftpd/src/ftpd.c
>>  Checkout src/contrib/telnet/telnetd/sys_term.c
>>  Checkout src/libexec/ftpd/extern.h
>>  Checkout src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y
>>  Checkout src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S
>>  Checkout src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
>>  Checkout src/sys/dev/random/randomdev.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/kern/kern_environment.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/kern/kern_time.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/kern/uipc_domain.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/netinet/tcp.h
>>  Checkout src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/netinet6/icmp6.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/netinet6/in6.h
>>  Checkout src/sys/netinet6/in6_proto.c
>>  Checkout src/sys/netinet6/nd6.h
>>  Checkout src/sys/netinet6/nd6_nbr.c
>> Shutting down connection to server
>> Finished successfully
>>
>> ./standard supfile is:
>> *default host=cvsup.hu.FreeBSD.org
>> *default base=/var/db
>> *default prefix=/usr
>>
>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_0
>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>>
>> *default compress
>>
>> src-all
>>
>>
>> If i do again a freebsd-update i get:
>> # freebsd-update fetch install
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org...
>> done.
>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Inspecting system... done.
>> Preparing to download files... done.
>>
>> The following files will be updated as part of updating to
>> 7.0-RELEASE-p11:
>> /usr/src/contrib/lukemftpd/src/ftpd.c
>> /usr/src/contrib/telnet/telnetd/sys_term.c
>> /usr/src/libexec/ftpd/extern.h
>> /usr/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpcmd.y
>> /usr/src/libexec/ftpd/ftpd.c
>> /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/exception.S
>> /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
>> /usr/src/sys/dev/random/randomdev.c
>> /usr/src/sys/dev/random/randomdev_soft.c
>> /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_environment.c
>> /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_time.c
>> /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_domain.c
>> /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c
>> /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp.h
>> /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_output.c
>> /usr/src/sys/netinet6/icmp6.c
>> /usr/src/sys/netinet6/in6.h
>> /usr/src/sys/netinet6/in6_proto.c
>> /usr/src/sys/netinet6/nd6.h
>> /usr/src/sys/netinet6/nd6_nbr.c
>> Installing updates... done.
>>
>>
>> I know freebs-update is getting the correct files for release 7.0, but i
>> don't understand where i go wrong with csup. If anyone can point the
>> obvious that i can't see here please do.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>   
> I'm not entirely clear what you're trying to do, but freebsd-update is a
> binary upgrade utility and cvsup is source based.  perhaps csup is
> borking w/ how freebsd-update is verifying the files to update. 
> however, you should use one or the other not both.  I only use csup when
> doing a major upgrade eg 7.0 -> 7.1 and doing a buildworld. 
> freebsd-update keeps me up to date on latest patchset.
> 

I'm not doing this on a regular basis, i'm using freebsd-update for
updates and csup for version changes also. But i thought that csup with
tag=RELENG_7_0 should keep me up to date with sources too.

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