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Submitted by: jkh gclarkii paul satoshi freebsd-hackers These are the FAQ files, reorganized a bit and updated marginally for 2.0. There is *still more work to be done* in updating, so if some of your FAQ text is below, please check it over! We've also got a lot of FAQ entries still to write (examples: "how do I upgrade?" "what's new in 2.0?" "how do I install on a notebook/second drive/from DOS/etc etc etc?"
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Sup FAQ
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Last updated: $Date: 1994/05/11 22:40:48 $
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SUP is a network based software update tool developed at CMU. The
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purpose of this document is get the beginner up and running with sup.
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First off you will need to pick up the sup binaries. The easiest
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way of doing this is to grab the sup_bin.tgz package from:
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freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/packages
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(FreeBSD 1.1 or later)
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freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/packages-1.0
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(FreeBSD 1.0.2 or earlier)
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If you only wish to set up a sup client, you may also simply grab the sup
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binary you see in this directory. This is generally enough for 99.9% of
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those using sup.
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Install the sup package using pkg_add (or the binary) and add the following
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line to your /etc/services file:
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sup 871/tcp #sup
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SUP gets the information it needs to run from a configuration file
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called a supfile. This file tells sup what collections it will be updating
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and/or installing and where they go. The supfile in this directory will
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sup both the source and ports collection - look for the blank line seperating
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the two collections; if you don't want ports, you can simply delete all the
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ports entries. If you're inside the United States, you may also uncomment
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the `secure' collection line to grab the DES code. If you're outside the
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U.S., you should NOT sup this code from freefall.cdrom.com as this will
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violate U.S. export restrictions. Simply sup everything *but* the secure
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collection and then go look on "braae.ru.ac.za", where it's available for
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anonymous ftp for those outside the U.S.
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Any other distributions you do not wish to receive can be commented out
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with a # at the begining of the distribution line.
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Once this is setup, you're ready to go. To start sup type:
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sup supfile
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If you wish to see what sup is doing "verbosely", give it the -v option,
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like so:
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sup -v supfile
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Thats all there is to it! Remember that if you're running current,
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which is what you will have if you sup, please join the freebsd-current
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mailing list. You should also be sure to read:
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freebsd.cdrom.com:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/FAQ/OTHER-FAQS/FreeBSD.current.policy
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For important information on just what we can and cannot do for you as
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a -current user.
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Gary Clark II / Jordan Hubbard
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FreeBSD maintainance persons.
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Description of FreeBSD SUP distributions:
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base: /usr/src/... misc files at the top of /usr/src
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bin: /usr/src/bin system binaries
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secure: /usr/src/secure DES Sources. U.S./Canada only!
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etc: /usr/src/etc system files
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games: /usr/src/games games
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gnu: /usr/src/gnu sources under the GNU Public License
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include: /usr/src/include include files
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sys: /usr/src/sys kernel sources
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lib: /usr/src/lib libraries
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libexec: /usr/src/libexec more system binaries
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share: /usr/src/share various shared resources
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sbin: /usr/src/sbin even more system binaries
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usrbin: /usr/src/usr.bin user binaries
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usrsbin: /usr/src/usr.sbin that's it for the system binaries
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Ports:
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ports-base: /usr/ports/... misc files at the top of /usr/ports
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ports-editors: /usr/ports/editors text editors
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ports-game: /usr/ports/games games
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ports-lang: /usr/ports/lang programming languages
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ports-mail: /usr/ports/mail mail software
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ports-math: /usr/ports/math math software
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ports-net: /usr/ports/net networking software
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ports-news: /usr/ports/news USENET news software
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ports-print: /usr/ports/print printing software
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ports-shells: /usr/ports/shells various UN*X shells
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ports-utils: /usr/ports/utils miscellaneous utilities
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ports-x11: /usr/ports/x11 X11 software
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