auto cvsup

[Billy Newsom]

Here's a neat little script you can run from cron or commandline.  I use 
it to update the ports tree and the source tree for 5-STABLE.  Feel free 
to change the cvsup logging to suit (I don't log the ports, but I do log 
important STABLE src stuff).  Also, use the correct country for mirrors.

You need to install cvsup, portupgrade, fastest_cvsup, and if you want, 
try freebsd-update.  The portupgrade line at the bottom may not be 
needed by many.  But this way, I already have the latest ports 
distfiles, if I want, so when I am ready to run portupgrade, the 
download is already on my disk.

Ensure you put your cvsup files in the right place (or edit the script 
below.)  I run this every other day on FreeBSD 5.4.  The logs help me 
see what needs to be updated.  (Every time it runs, it will show you 
what ports could be updated.  It will also show you what files were 
updated in the source tree.)

my cron entry:
33 2 */2 * * /root/mydaily.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

Weekly is like this:
33 2 * * 3 /root/mydaily.sh 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null

***********/root/mydaily.sh*********
#!/bin/sh
#
# Billy saw something like this on 12/18/2004 at:
#http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6041?page=last&x-order=date
#
LOGF="/var/log/cvsup.log"
exec >>${LOGF} 2>&1
echo "START @ `/bin/date`"
#use fastest_cvsup to find fastest geographically
#close mirror; I'll check Canada and the US

if SERVER=`/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c ca,us`; then
    echo "Using STABLE Server:" $SERVER
    /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L1 -h $SERVER -l /var/log/cvs-lock-s 
/root/stable-supfile
    echo "STABLE done @ `/bin/date`"
  else
   echo "cvsup-STABLE has a fastest_cvsup problem on...`/bin/date`"
fi

if SERVER=`/usr/local/bin/fastest_cvsup -Q -c ca,us`; then
    echo "Using PORTS Server:" $SERVER
    /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L0 -h $SERVER -l /var/log/cvs-lock-p 
/root/ports-supfile
    echo "PORTS done @ `/bin/date`"
  else
   echo "cvsup-PORTS has a fastest_cvsup problem on...`/bin/date`"
fi

#-U (which takes a long time to execute) isn't needed
#with the fetchindex command
cd /usr/ports
make fetchindex
/usr/local/sbin/portsdb -u

######################################
# This program is nice, too.  Remove two comments below to suit.
# echo "Looking for security patches"
# freebsd-update fetch
######################################

echo "The following ports need upgrading"
/usr/local/sbin/portversion -l "<"
echo ""
echo "Now downloading the new port distfiles"
/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -OaF |grep -v "Fetching" |grep -v "Skipping"
echo "STOP at `/bin/date`."
echo "********"


Maher Mohamed wrote:

> how can i upgrade my cvsup weekly with an auto way?
>