Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-17 Thread Walter Hurry
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:48:18 +0200, Polytropon wrote:

 snip problem and comprehensive answer 

That's really helpful. Very many thanks, Polytropon.


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Re: freebsd-update and csup - I'm going around in circles.

2012-08-16 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 21:24:37 + (UTC), Walter Hurry wrote:
 Every time I run freebsd-update fetch it says it wants to update the 
 following 5 source files as part of updating to 9.0-RELEASE-p4:
 
 /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/trap.c
 /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh
 /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_input.c
 /usr/src/sys/netinet6/in6.c
 /usr/src/sys/netinet6/ip6_input.c
 
 So I run freebsd-update install and they are updated happily.
 
 But when I run csup with my standard-supfile, it puts the same 5 files 
 back to where they were.

Not and. Why are you mixing tools here? You're shooting
your own foot. :-)

You use _either_ freebsd-update to update your system the binary
way, _or_ you use csup to update your sources and then compile
your system from that sources.

Solution: Don't use csup. :-)

Side note: Check your update configuration files so they reflect
the proper branch you want to follow. With freebsd-update you
follow the -RELEASE-pX branch, with csup you can

a) follow -RELEASE-pX
b) follow -STABLE
c) follow -CURRENT

Note that you should not mix those! You can always switch branches
when using the source code based method (csup), but you should not
do so using freebsd-update.

An example configuration to follow -RELEASE-pX using the csup
method with make update would look like this:

% cat /etc/sup/release.sup 
*default host=cvsup.freebsd.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_9_0
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all

Together with the selection in /etc/make.conf:

SUP_UPDATE= YES
SUP=/usr/bin/csup
SUPFLAGS=   -L 2
SUPHOST=cvsup.freebsd.org
SUPFILE=/etc/sup/release.sup
PORTSSUPFILE=   /etc/sup/ports.sup
DOCSUPFILE= /etc/sup/doc.sup
DOC_LANG=   en_US.ISO8859-1 de_DE.ISO8859-1

you can easily control the process.

(Sidenote: I also have /etc/sup/stable.sup which looks like the
example provided, but has tag=RELENG_9 in it. You could also use
tag=RELENG_9_0_0_RELEASE to revert back to 9.0-RELEASE.)



You can find an example for what the CVS tags mean here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html



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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
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