On 2/24/06, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey people, > > I notice that in my supfile, I have this: > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I don't want > ports that aren't going to work on 5.4. Is that a concern? >
No, but you need to have at least two cvsup files, one for the system and the other for ports and everything else so keep reading.... (all the way to the end!) Change "*default host" to the cvsup server of your choice, servers are listed at the bottom of this page: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html Change "*default release=cvs tag=" To: RELENG_5_4: Tracks 5.4-RELEASE errata fix branch RELENG_5: Tracks 5-STABLE Branch RELENG_6_0: Tracks 6.0-RELEASE errata fix branch RELENG_6: Tracks 6-STABLE Branch HEAD: Tracks -CURRENT, currently FreeBSD 7, it's for developers. For a full list of branch tags and other good reading materials refer to the release engineering page: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html infomatic# more ~/standard-supfile *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ------------------------------------------------ Ports, docs, etc. do not have -RELEASE tags, when you cvsup ports you always get what would be the equivalent of cvsup'ing you system up with -CURRENT, hence the dot for the release tag. You can however cvsup to a specific date and time in the passed if you use something like this "*default date=2005.11.27.00.00.00", all the zero's are for time (GMT, 24 hour clock). infomatic# more ~/ports-supfile *default host=cvsup12.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all doc-all After you cvsup new ports you must always read the /usr/ports/UPDATING file, if your planning on cvsup'ing your ports today your in for a big doozy as libtool just had a major overhaul, perl and expat were both update with in the last few weeks and then you have the whole fam vs. gamin debacle. Because of the libtool overhaul and the 3 other things you will have to uninstall every port and package on your system and then reinstall them. The good news is that now would be the perfect time to wipe the system clean and do a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2. All you really need to do is backup the important stuff, just tarball everything and copy it over the network to another system, backup the following: /etc /root your home directory /usr/local/etc /usr/local/ (look around in here for stuff to save, like apache's data directory, etc.) /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ (if you have custom kernel config files) Possibly /var (I don't know what you use this system for or what you have installed) Anything else you want saved Then download and burn: 6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.1/6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso MD5 (6.1-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 3267d7794079d3b803f5f5f004cf04f1 Now install FreeBSD, delete the old slices first with fdisk and don't install X11, the only package you should install is cvsup-without-gui. After FreeBSD is installed run cvsup to get all the new ports, then uninstall perl, run the following: -------- cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/ make deinstall make install perl-after-upgrade -------- Ok now your good to go, reinstall all the ports you need. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
