On 03/01/2013 19:56, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, Matthew. > You wrote 3 января 2013 г., 22:21:16: > >>> I'm a bit reluctant to installing svn on every system that needs source >>> updates. Are there more lightweight ways? > > MS> freebsd-update(8) > It says (on 9-STABLE): > > The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary > updates to the FreeBSD base system. Note that updates are only available > if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture being > used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for > releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, > e.g., FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE and FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, but not FreeBSD > 6.3-STABLE or FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT. > > So, as far as I understand, it could not be used to track -STABLE > branch, as it was possible with csup. Nothing is say about possibility > to update "src" on stable branch with it. Is it possible and man page > needs to be updated? >
Ah. Yes, you are right. You can't track a stable branch with
freebsd-update. In that case, svn is the way to go.
Cheers,
Matthew
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