Hello Chris
On 04.07.2013 10:00, Chris H wrote:
working on a fairly wobbly system. I'm on RELENG_8 (8.4), and would like to sync my src
&&
ports via the (now defacto) subversion method. My previous experience is with
the client
For /usr/src/ I did the following steps:
Adjust the variables in /etc/make.conf (remove the "old" SUP*
variables and add):
SVN_UPDATE=yes
SVN=/usr/local/bin/svn
Then do the following steps:
Backup your custom kernel config file and anything else you have
customized in /usr/src/, or if you have the space, use:
mv /usr/src /usr/src-old
rm -rf /usr/src # only if you did not 'mv ...'
svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.4 /usr/src
Restore your custom kernel config file
cd /usr/src
make update # should not sync anything, just for testing
Everything else is "almost" identical as before with csup/cvsup.
The only drawback with the subversion method is, that when you
would like to upgrade to e.g. RELENG_8_5, you need to redo the
above steps with removing /usr/src and checkout. This was more
easier with the csup/cvsup method with just adjusting the version
in the supfile. If there is an easier solution to upgrade an
existing svn checkout from e.g. 8.4 to 8.5, please tell me.
With the above created svn checkout and then doing the 'make
update' you will get the updates from any Security Advisory
affecting your current RELEASE, as it was with csup/cvsup.
The checkout with subversion uses significant more disk space
than it was with csup/cvsup before. With subversion 1.8 I have
~720 MB (was ~770 MB with svn 1.7) in /usr/src/.svn (RELEASE-9.1)
and ~670 MB (was ~830 MB with svn 1.7) in /usr/ports/.svn.
A fresh install of a FreeBSD system is also an interesting
challenge. In the past I did the install without Ports, then
fetched a newer ports.tar.gz from the mirror and extracted it
into /usr/ports/ and did use csup to get it up-to-date.
With subversion this is a little bit more complicated, as
subversion is also in the Ports and not in the FreeBSD base. You
could install subversion and all the dependencies from packages
and then do the svn checkout of /usr/ports/ and then upgrading
the installed packages. Or you install the Ports and use portsnap
to upgrade, build subversion and dependencies, remove /usr/ports/
again (probably preserve /usr/ports/distfiles/) and do the svn
checkout of /usr/ports/.
bye
Fabian
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