[olug] CVS: cvsup on FreeBSD

[neal rauhauser]

  Lets all give Sean a big hand for volunteering to do a presentation on
cvsup+portupgrade :-)

Sean Kelly wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 07:49:11AM -0500, neal rauhauser wrote:
> >   The BSD world keeps the kernel source and much of the OS itself in
> > /usr/src.
> 
> Actually, all of FreeBSD sans the ports collection resides under /usr/src.
> /usr/src is commonly referred to as "the world" or "the system."
> 
> > If you want to update you load the cvsup utility, either by
> > using /stand/sysinstall and installing the binary package, or by
> > changing to /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui and compiling/installing.
> 
> You can also update your source tree in a few other methods:
> * CVS (not CVSup) - This is how I do it. I actually keep a local mirror of
>   the entire FreeBSD repository, but that isn't necessary to use CVS.
> * CVSup - As you described it. This is a nicer interface to CVS which has
>   the advantages of rsync.
> * CTM - Patches are e-mailed to you and a script automatically applies them
>   every night.
> 
> For more information on these, see the FreeBSD Handbook:
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html
> 
> ...
> >   Sounds complex? An upgrade to the current patches in a given version
> > requires just these commands:
> >
> > cvsup -g -L 2 <config file>
> > cd /usr/src
> > make buildworld
> > make installworld
> > cd /usr/src/sys/compile/<machine's kernel directory>
> > make depend
> > make
> > make install
> > shutdown -r now
> 
> This is no longer the approved and suggested method to update one's kernel
> and world. I don't think it has been since the beginning of FreeBSD 4.x.
> The proper way is listed in /usr/src/UPDATING, which should be read every
> time you update your source tree. That method is:
> 
>         make buildworld
>         make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
>         make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
>         reboot  (in single user)
>         make installworld
>         mergemaster
>         reboot
> 
> Or, if you are like me and don't bother with singleuser mode since you are
> a desktop system and you've put the KERNCONF= line in /etc/make.conf, just
> do:
> 
>    make buildworld
>    make buildkernel
>    make installkernel
>    make installworld
>    mergemaster
>    reboot
> 
> ...
> >   There is a good article here http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/4111 about
> > something called portupgrade - an automagic method for finding installed
> > ports and updating them. I just discovered it so I'm not yet a wizard
> > with it, but it seems very promising - the binary package management on
> > FBSD will be as smooth as the OS upgrade path already is :-)
> 
> There was supposedly talk about the Binary Update system at BSDCon '03 over
> the weekend during the Security BoF. However, I didn't attend BSDCon so I
> don't really know anything about it. However, portupgrade rules.
> 
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