On Wednesday 22 May 2013 21:23:39 Ed Flecko wrote:
When security vulnerabilities are discovered and patches released by FBSD,
the patch will tell you what steps you need to take to apply the patch and
stay up to date, won't it?
Yes, if you subscribe to the FreeBSD Security Notifications
security patches applied. I'll install from DVD and I'll chose the option
to install both the ports and the source.
After this, it sure seems like the best way, in terms of speed to download
any updated files, is to use CTM as a cron job, but I think the FBSD
handbook recommends subversion? Also, I think
important) with a custom kernel and I want it to have all of the latest
security patches applied. I'll install from DVD and I'll chose the option
to install both the ports and the source.
After this, it sure seems like the best way, in terms of speed to download
any updated files, is to use CTM
of speed to download
any updated files, is to use CTM as a cron job, but I think the FBSD
handbook recommends subversion? Also, I think I read that CTM won't update
documentation? Is that right?
I also see some people say they use portsnap, portaudit and portupgrade.
For example, I came across
On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:39 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
So once you have a system up and running, how do you monitor if and when
you need to upgrade your ports tree?
This highly depends on your updating policy. There are three
mainstream opinions:
a) always update, regularly (e. g. once a week)
On Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:39 -0700, Ed Flecko wrote:
Alexandre,
Yes, that helps - thank you.
So once you have a system up and running, how do you monitor if and when
you need to upgrade your ports tree?
By the way, your ports tree is different than installed software
packages, right? In
With cvs having support ending next year and svn becoming the main work
horse, Just what is the status of CTM? I would think its more out dated
than cvs.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html
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Fbsd8 wrote:
With cvs having support ending next year and svn becoming the main work
horse, Just what is the status of CTM? I would think its more out dated
than cvs.
You havent grasped what CTM is:
A method of distributing trees
man ctm:source code mirror
just happened to notice that the mailing
lists were empty and therefore I thought the service is not being
used.
In case you did not notice the subject was in question form and points
#2 and #3 both had an if not clause. Your initial response answered
my question: that CTM is still being
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/ctm-src-8/ appears to be empty and
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/ctm-users/2009-December/000226.html
seems to be the last mention of CTM on any of the related mailing
lists (other than a few people asking if it was down).
So I have a few questions:
1
So I have a few questions:
1) Is it still being offered and supported as a method of updating
FreeBSD systems?
As of today, yes -- I have recent deltas in my mailbox. But you could
easily check by subscribing, and looking at:
http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM
where the deltas are still
I thought the service is not being
used.
In case you did not notice the subject was in question form and points
#2 and #3 both had an if not clause. Your initial response answered
my question: that CTM is still being offered. and therefore the rest
of the email is moot.
Thanks
Eitan Adler
My mailer dropped cvs-cur.13428.gz 1/3.
Could someone who uses CTM forward that e-mail to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Either that or could someone send an e-mail to that address with the
whole file as an attachment? I don't have FTP access from my location
On 06/06/2007, at 4:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My mailer dropped cvs-cur.13428.gz 1/3.
Could someone who uses CTM forward that e-mail to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Either that or could someone send an e-mail to that address with
the
whole file as an attachment? I
I'm preparing to take a computer on the road with me where I won't
have direct access to the internet, but will be able to receive e-mail
on a different computer through a webmail interface. I intend to keep
up to date using CTM, and have looked through the handbook but there
seems
to
date using CTM, and have looked through the handbook but there seems to
be an important part missing.
I have downloaded the baseline and a few updates through FTP and when I
have the files (cvs-cur.13214.gz for example) the updating works fine.
I'm trying to figure out how to use updates
I'm preparing to take a computer on the road with me where I won't have
direct access to the internet, but will be able to receive e-mail on a
different computer through a webmail interface. I intend to keep up to
date using CTM, and have looked through the handbook but there seems
Good day,
I have a workstation at office but I can only
access the internet through our proxy server. Someone
in this list have the same situation which was told to
use CTM. I'm currently using
5.3RC1 and would want to keep in sync with the latest
sources of 5.3 and recompile my system. I
all mail that I receive from the ctm list come whith the gz file in
the body of the message how can I edit these mail to obtain the gz
file.
Another question ;-) I need to know if exist a SCRIPT that can I use
with cron that daily conect to the CTM ftp site and download the
lastest files
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 02:16:37PM -0400, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote:
all mail that I receive from the ctm list come whith the gz file in
the body of the message how can I edit these mail to obtain the gz
file.
Another question ;-) I need to know if exist a SCRIPT that can I use
Ok in the man page I found these
Ctm_rmail -p /pieces -d /deltas -b /usr/ctm-src-cur $MAIL
The question is that my mail account (where I receive deltas) it's a
Microsoft Exchage via IMAP
How can I use ctm_rmail with that account that's why I ask for a SCRIPT
that do these job directly from the ftp
I was out-of-pocket yesterday, so I may have missed a lot.
Today I have been noticing no CTM deltas have arrived on the FTP sites
(including vmunix) since late Monday 26 Jan. 2004.
And then I tried to catch-up by browsing the Mail Archives today, to
find it hasn't been updated since then, too
I've read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html
and it's not clear to me why anyone would use ctm over cvs. Seems to
me that cvs provides far more than ctm, but since ctm has been around
since FreeBSD 2.0, there must be some value to it.
So, what's the point
From: Paul A. Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, what's the point of ctm? vs. cvs?
Never mind. I've found more information on ctm that has answered my
question.
Paul
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