I just do this every night. A 'crontab -e' as root suffices to install
the entries. I've never found the need to create a custom cvsup file,
the one in examples works just fine. The log level will list edits cvsup
makes.
42 3 * * * /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
42 5 * * * /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h cvsup2.freebsd.org
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
No muss, no fuss. Works great over a modem once you've synced up.
Alternatively, if I'm tracking the CVS tree:
42 4 * * * /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -r 20 -L 2 -h cvsup.freebsd.org
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile
--
In regards to /etc/periodic... no, it is not a good idea to put a
default cvsup in there. A good chunk of installations don't need to
run it.. for example, for Backplane (and for BEST, and for home as well),
I have one machine doing the cvsup's and then I export /usr/src and
/usr/obj to the others read-only, allowing me to buildworld on the
one machine and then installworld on all the others. It works
unbelivably well.
-Matt
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