by free.. » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
Hi,
I remember read somewhere here indicating a crontab script which updates
selected or installed ports packages AUTOMATICALLY. The scenario is
whenever there is a new file uploaded to
ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/All, my
FreeBSD will grab it back and install in the background. The idea is to
compare to the dates of each port. Can anyone help me out. I kinda
need it badly 'cause I will be away for a while. Thanks.
by Christopher Kings-Lynn » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
Just download cvsupit.tgz from your local fbsd mirror and pkg_add it. It
should be in a CVSup dir of the ftp server. It has onscreen instructions on
what to do next...
Chris
> Hi,
> I remember read somewhere here indicating a crontab script which updates
> selected or installed ports packages AUTOMATICALLY. The scenario is
> whenever there is a new file uploaded to
> ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/All, my
> FreeBSD will grab it back and install in the background. The idea is to
> compare to the dates of each port. Can anyone help me out. I kinda
> need it badly 'cause I will be away for a while. Thanks.
by Stephen Wait » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
> Hi,
> I remember read somewhere here indicating a crontab script which updates
> selected or installed ports packages AUTOMATICALLY. The scenario is
> whenever there is a new file uploaded to
> ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/All, my
> FreeBSD will grab it back and install in the background. The idea is to
> compare to the dates of each port. Can anyone help me out. I kinda
> need it badly 'cause I will be away for a while. Thanks.
--Steve
by annel.. » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
There's also pkg-version or pkg_version. This compares the installed
version from the one available in ports. It would be the base for a
script that then goes and adds the new pkg or builds the port. I know
people have worked on such a script; they're usually a bit dangerous to
run. They may update software to a version requiring a new configuration
file, for example. Are you sure you want to do this?
Annelise
by freebi » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
> What you want to use is cvsup.
> Just download cvsupit.tgz from your local fbsd mirror and pkg_add it. It
> should be in a CVSup dir of the ftp server. It has onscreen instructions on
> what to do next...
> Chris
by freebi » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
> See section 18 of the FreeBSD handbook. Particularly, section 18.3.3.5
> describes the names of CVSup file collections (one of them being
> ports-all) you may grab once you have cvsup running.
> --Steve
by freebi » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
> If you have cvsup files configured, you can easily run them from crontab.
> But you want more than this; you want to run "make install" from the
> appropriate directory if some particular ports are updated. Or you
> want to pkg_add them. I think there's a pkg_add -r command, or something
> that fetches and installs the package.
> There's also pkg-version or pkg_version. This compares the installed
> version from the one available in ports. It would be the base for a
> script that then goes and adds the new pkg or builds the port. I know
> people have worked on such a script; they're usually a bit dangerous to
> run. They may update software to a version requiring a new configuration
> file, for example. Are you sure you want to do this?
> Annelise
by Stephen Wait » Fri, 14 Jan 2000 04:00:00
> system I have experienced. I am gonna keep searching for the solution
> of automatically updating security, kernel, ports, packages I installed
> on my computer, rather than going over all the trees in ports because it
> consumes quite much computing time on my P3 450 128MB system. I think I
--Steve
by Christopher Kings-Lynn » Sat, 15 Jan 2000 04:00:00
It sounds to me that you haven't configured cvsup properly. To update yourQuote:> Thanks. I have just read it. But I thinks cvsup is not exactly what I
> was thinking of because it just runs like endless even for a test run on
> /usr/bin selection. Actually I dont like to mess around with sources
> and just like to use FreeBSD because so far it is the most stable free
> system I have experienced. I am gonna keep searching for the solution
> of automatically updating security, kernel, ports, packages I installed
> on my computer, rather than going over all the trees in ports because it
> consumes quite much computing time on my P3 450 128MB system. I think I
> will try specifying in crontab which package to grab and pkg_add. I can
> do this because I only install 14 extra packages in addition to the
> stand 3.4 distribion. Regards, Peter.
*default host=cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs
*default tag=RELENG_3
*default delete use-rel-suffix compress
*default tag=.
ports-all
But replace cvsup.au with whatever mirror is closest to you.
Then go (as root)
cvsup -g -L 2 cvsupfile
And all will be well. It takes a while to run the first time, but after
that it should only take around a few minutes a day. If you put src-all
aboce the '*default tag=.' line, it will update your source as well which
can take ages...
Chris
by freebie_pot.. » Sat, 15 Jan 2000 04:00:00
snip
>And all will be well. It takes a while to run the first time, but after
>that it should only take around a few minutes a day. If you put src-all
>aboce the '*default tag=.' line, it will update your source as well which
>can take ages...
>Chris
by Tore Lun » Sat, 15 Jan 2000 04:00:00
> It takes a while to run the first time, but after
> that it should only take around a few minutes a day.
by Stephen Wait » Sat, 15 Jan 2000 04:00:00
> > It takes a while to run the first time, but after
> > that it should only take around a few minutes a day.
> I am new to FreeBSD and have not yet CVSed, so I wonder: What is
> transferred during those few minutes a day? Do the ports change every
> day? Do the core programs?
--Steve
by Conrad Sabati » Wed, 19 Jan 2000 04:00:00
>> > It takes a while to run the first time, but after
>> > that it should only take around a few minutes a day.
>> I am new to FreeBSD and have not yet CVSed, so I wonder: What is
>> transferred during those few minutes a day? Do the ports change every
>> day? Do the core programs?
>If you grab the whole stable tree, ports and all, you will get quite a
>bit of files updated every day. Never a day goes by that SOMETHING
>isn't updated. Usually there are quite a few updates to the system and
>ports code.
Even when I was still using only a 28.8/33.6 K modem, cvsup never
took more than a few minutes. It's really not that big of a deal.
--
Conrad Sabatier
http://members.home.net/conrads/
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