Q: cvsup, standard-supfile, and 5.3...

Hi all,

I just completed a 5.2.1 install a couple weeks ago and saw the
5.3 announcement to the mailing list today and being a nerd (and
we all know that the "latest and greatest desire" is a true
disease ;^) ) I'm considering upgrading.

But, this brings me to a question regarding CVS and the
standard-supfile that is in the examples dir:
/usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
I only changed the server line so far.

How do I see what version that supfile will update my src
to? I don't see any kind of tag specifier or anything like
that (I am a total newb to CVS though). So, if I cvsup with
that file, will I get the 5.3 source that I can then build?

Also, how can one tell what version a system is at after
doing this? For example, I installed 5.2.1 from the CDs
and then did a cvsup and the associated buildworld/kernel
but is there a way to see that the system is now at "5.2.1.1"
or something like that? Just curious so I know how far out
of date or recent my system is.

Thanks,
Mike


Contents of my standard-supfile:
# $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile,v 1.22 2003/09/18 08:19:39 eivind Exp $
#
# This file contains all of the "CVSup collections" that make up the
# FreeBSD-current source tree.
#
# CVSup (CVS Update Protocol) allows you to download the latest CVS
# tree (or any branch of development therefrom) to your system easily
# and efficiently (far more so than with sup, which CVSup is aimed
# at replacing). If you're running CVSup interactively, and are
# currently using an X display server, you should run CVSup as follows
# to keep your CVS tree up-to-date:
#
# cvsup standard-supfile
#
# If not running X, or invoking cvsup from a non-interactive script, then
# run it as follows:
#
# cvsup -g -L 2 standard-supfile
#
# You may wish to change some of the settings in this file to better
# suit your system:
#
# host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
# This specifies the server host which will supply the
# file updates. You must change it to one of the CVSup
# mirror sites listed in the FreeBSD Handbook at
# http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
# You can override this setting on the command line
# with cvsup's "-h host" option.
#
# base=/usr
# This specifies the root where CVSup will store information
# about the collections you have transferred to your system.
# A setting of "/usr" will generate this information in
# /usr/sup. Even if you are CVSupping a large number of
# collections, you will be hard pressed to generate more than
# ~1MB of data in this directory. You can override the
# "base" setting on the command line with cvsup's "-b base"
# option. This directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
#
# prefix=/usr
# This specifies where to place the requested files. A
# setting of "/usr" will place all of the files requested
# in "/usr/src" (e.g., "/usr/src/bin", "/usr/src/lib").
# The prefix directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
# Defaults that apply to all the collections
#
# IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
# listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
*default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix

# If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try
# commenting out the following line. (Normally, today's CPUs are fast enough
# that you want to run compression.)
*default compress

## Main Source Tree.
#
# The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the "src-all"
# mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "src-*" collections.
src-all

# These are the individual collections that make up "src-all". If you
# use these, be sure to comment out "src-all" above.
#src-base
#src-bin
#src-contrib
#src-etc
#src-games
#src-gnu
#src-include
#src-kerberos5
#src-kerberosIV
#src-lib
#src-libexec
#src-release
#src-sbin
#src-share
#src-sys
#src-tools
#src-usrbin
#src-usrsbin
# These are the individual collections that make up FreeBSD's crypto
# collection. They are no longer export-restricted and are a part of
# src-all
#src-crypto
#src-eBones
#src-secure
#src-sys-crypto

Mike S. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Also, how can one tell what version a system is at after
> doing this? For example, I installed 5.2.1 from the CDs
> and then did a cvsup and the associated buildworld/kernel
> but is there a way to see that the system is now at "5.2.1.1"
> or something like that? Just curious so I know how far out
> of date or recent my system is.

Also, in my dmesg, I see this:
-----
Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Oct 20 18:21:40 MDT 2004
-----

I'm guessing that the 6.0 is not entirely correct, hence the
above question (second part of my OP).

Thanks,
Mike