On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 18:01:20 +1300, "Jonathan Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:38:26PM +1300, Richard Shea wrote: > Hi - Thanks for your reply ... > [...] > > Well I answered a few questions, pressed the button and the process > > commenced 'checking out' hundreds of files. I thought this was a bit > > suprising given I thought the whole point of CVS was to only pull those > > files which had changed - it just seemed to be pulling everying ! Anyway > > I had to CTRL-C it after a while as the file system had gone to 105%. > > Well, if you're moving from 4.4 to 4.7, there will be *quite* a lot of > files which will have changed. > I didn't really want to go all the way to 4.7 in one go I think if i change my cvsupfile so that it reads
*default tag=RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE that will be what I want ... [SNIP] > cvsup installs directly into /usr/{src|ports|doc}. Your sources are > probably in an indeterminate state. However, if you rerun cvsup, it will > fix itself up. > good [SNIP] > If you intend on just upgrading your system sources, you don't need > ports-all and doc-all. src-all is approx 298M and the ports-all is > about 162M. Dunno about doc-all. Removing the ports-all and doc-all > will probably just squeeze your update in. I'm unsure whether you'll > have enough space to recompile your system though... > Even the 162M presents a problem and I was wondering if there some way I could suck the sources onto a different file system which has more space than /usr and get CVSUP to compile them from there ? regards richard shea. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Cuba Group PO Box 1864 Wellington New Zealand PH +64 4 496 5205 MO +64 21 296 6839 FX +64 4 496 5209 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message