On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:37 -0400 J.C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a beginner with FreeBSD and somewhat intermediate with Unix-like > operating systems in general, so please bear the nature of my > questions. I have some questions about CVSup that seem unclear from > the handbook. Right now I'm sticking with RELENG_7_0; I intend to > track -STABLE once I get the hang of CVSup, make buildworld, etc.
You need to understand CVSup, make buildworld, to track RELENG_7_0 (and successors) too, are you sure you want to track a development branch? > I understand that the supfile contains the list of *default settings > (*default tag=RELENG_7_0 etc.) followed by the list of "collections". > The "Using CVSup" page suggests simply using the src-all collection. I > understand that when tracking -STABLE I want to update the ports > collection before running make buildworld; is the ports collection > included in the "base source tree" (i.e. does src-all imply ports-all) No > or should ports-all be included as a separate line beneath src-all? You can do that, but I think most people use separate files, so they can be updated independently. There are multiple sample files for this reason. > The "Using the Ports Collection" page in the handbook says to make > sure /usr/ports is empty before running csup because otherwise "csup > will not prune removed patch files." Isn't this what the "delete" in > the supfile (as in the line *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix > compress) is for? It's a bit subtle, csup has to establish a baseline in its metadata for it to be fully confident about which files it can delete, this can be done starting with an empty or fully syncronized tree. There's also a separate issue that it never deletes files which have never been under CVS. > Do I have to clean /usr/ports every time I run csup > or just the first time? Just the first. > If I don't care about encrypted transmission or HTTP vs. CVS > protocols, are there any compelling reasons to use portsnap instead of > CVSup/csup? portsnap is much faster. And since the fetch part doesn't affect the ports tree it can be done safely from a crontab, which speeds things up even more. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"