## CVSup Simplified
## Rob Garrett <rob@freebsdzine.org>

The last time I touched on cvsup, I left out the newer features which
are in the newer versions of FreeBSD.  I am of course referring the
3.X series.  For that reason, I thought I would explain how to cvsup
again; this time the EASY way.  The magic that makes this possible is
found in /etc/make.conf.  Let's go take a quick look at that file and
make a few changes.


	# CVSup update flags.  Edit SUPFILE settings to reflect
	# whichever distribution file(s) you use on your site (see
	# /usr/share/examples/cvsup/README for more information on
	# CVSup and these files).  To use, do "make update" in
	# /usr/src.
	#
	SUP_UPDATE=	yes
	#
	SUP=		/usr/local/bin/cvsup
	SUPFLAGS=	-g -L 2 -z -h cvsup3.freebsd.org
	SUPFILE=	/usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
	SUPFILE1=	/usr/share/examples/cvsup/secure-supfile
	SUPFILE2=	/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile

This is how this section looks.  Of course, my changes are in this
output.  In yours, the above will be commented out.  Pay special
attention to the line entitled SUPFLAGS and the -h option.  This 
option overrides the site set in the supfiles so you dont have to edit
them at all anymore.  For stable, just change standard-supfile to
stable-supfile then save make.conf.

Finally you can run it:

	# cd /usr/src
	# make update

Now you can update your source tree and ports collection the easy way.

- Rob

$Id: cvsup.txt,v 1.1 2000/02/16 08:07:52 jim Exp $