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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: upgrading to 2.2...confused by handbook
Date: 18 Mar 1997 11:14:45 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <332BF9CD.41C67EA6@javanet.com.nospam>,
"John D. Szumowski" <harpo@javanet.com.nospam> writes:
> This is probably just a case of trying to do something too complicated
> too early in the morning, but here goes...
> Right now, I am running 2.1.5 RELEASE. I would like to upgrade to
> 2.2...I have searched through the handbook and can't determine whether I
> should use CTM or CVSup to get what I need (I'm not interested in
> upgrading ports right now - everything else, though). The description of
> CTM made it sound like it could only be used for getting the latest
> current release...I guess I'm a little confused as to the status of
> 2.2...thought 3.0 was current.
> At any rate, I would appreciate any suggestions. I'm only on a 33.6 dial
> up connection, so speed is important (especially since my @*#! provider
> tends to impose 4 hr time limits)
> thanks!
I'm on a 33.6 link, and use cvsup. It's quite straight forward. Have
a look in /usr/share/examples/cvsup - sounds like you just need src-all.
The first connection will take a while, but as cvsup downloads a copy
of the source code repositry, you'll be able to check out
anything - release 2.2 (cvs co -r RELENG_2_2_0_RELEASE src), current
(cvs co src) or even a snap from a given date (cvs co -D 970209 src).
I think it takes about 20 minutes / night to keep up to date. If you
do things every two or three nights, it would probably only take
20-30 minutes.
The downside is it takes up some space - ~300Mb for src-all.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !