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<!-- $Id: sup.sgml,v 1.16 1996/07/04 01:44:33 jkh Exp $ -->
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<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
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<sect><heading>SUP<label id="sup"></heading>
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<p><em>Contributed by &a.jkh; and &a.gclarkii;.</em>
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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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<sect1><heading>Getting setup</heading>
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<p>SUP gets the information it needs to run from a configuration file
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called a supfile. There are different example supfiles provided
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for different source releases of FreeBSD. The
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<htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/examples/sup/standard-supfile"
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name="/usr/share/examples/sup/standard-supfile"> file, for example,
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contains sup information for the latest standard FreeBSD source
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distributions - it tells sup what collections it will be updating
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and/or installing and where they go. Someone using this particular
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supfile is said to be supping <ref id="current" name="-current">.
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<p>For ports, please have a look at
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<htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/examples/sup/ports-supfile"
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name="/usr/share/examples/sup/ports-supfile">.<p>
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If you are interested in obtaining the
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<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb" name="CVS"> files
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that make up the source tree, refer to
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<htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/examples/sup/cvs-supfile"
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name="/usr/share/examples/sup/cvs-supfile">.<p>
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If you would rather track changes to the -stable branch, refer to
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<htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/examples/sup/stable-supfile"
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name="/usr/share/examples/sup/stable-supfile"> instead.
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If you are inside the United States, you may also uncomment
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the `secure' and `eBones' collection lines to grab the DES code.
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If you are outside the
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U.S., you should NOT sup this code from sup.FreeBSD.ORG as this will
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violate U.S. export restrictions. Instead you should use the
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<htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/examples/sup/secure-supfile"
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name="secure-supfile"> in the sup examples directory. This will
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connect you to the international sup site that contains a secure distribution.
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Any distributions you do not wish to receive can be commented out
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with a # at the beginning of the distribution line.
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Please consult the file
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<htmlurl url="file:/usr/share/examples/sup/README"
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name="/usr/share/examples/sup/README">
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for a list of alternate sup servers. The default sup server (sup.FreeBSD.ORG)
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listed in the above example files is currently overloaded and any traffic
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that can be transfered to a different host will help relieve some of
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the strain.
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Once this is setup, you are ready to go. To start sup type:
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<verb>
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sup supfile
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</verb>
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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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<verb>
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sup -v supfile
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</verb>
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Thats all there is to it! Remember that if you are running current,
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which is what you will have if you sup with the standard-supfile, please
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join the &a.current . You should also be sure to read
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<ref id="current" name="Staying current with FreeBSD">
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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. If you are using the stable-supfile, please
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join the &a.stable and read
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<ref id="stable" name="Staying stable with FreeBSD">.
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<sect1><heading>Description of FreeBSD SUP distributions</heading>
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<p>For the main FreeBSD distribution using the standard-supfile:
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<verb>
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src-base: /usr/src/... misc files at the top of /usr/src
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src-bin: /usr/src/bin user and system binaries
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src-secure: /usr/src/secure DES Sources (US/Canada ONLY)
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src-eBones: /usr/src/eBones Kerberos and DES (US/Canada ONLY)
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src-etc: /usr/src/etc system files
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src-games: /usr/src/games games
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src-gnu: /usr/src/gnu sources under the GNU Public License
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src-include: /usr/src/include include files
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src-sys: /usr/src/sys kernel sources
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src-lib: /usr/src/lib libraries
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src-libexec: /usr/src/libexec system binaries
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src-share: /usr/src/share various shared resources
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src-sbin: /usr/src/sbin single user system binaries
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src-usrbin: /usr/src/usr.bin user binaries
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src-usrsbin: /usr/src/usr.sbin system binaries
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</verb>
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<p>For the international FreeBSD distribution using the secure-supfile:
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<verb>
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src-secure: /usr/src/secure DES Sources
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src-eBones: /usr/src/eBones Kerberos and DES
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</verb>
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<p>And for the ports collection:
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<verb>
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ports-base: /usr/ports/... misc files at the top of /usr/ports
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ports-archivers: /usr/ports/archivers archiving tools
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ports-audio: /usr/ports/audio sound support
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ports-benchmarks: /usr/ports/benchmarks benchmarks
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ports-cad: /usr/ports/cad CAD tools
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ports-comms: /usr/ports/comms communication software
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ports-databases: /usr/ports/databases databases
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ports-devel: /usr/ports/devel development utilities
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ports-editors: /usr/ports/editors editors
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ports-emulators: /usr/ports/emulators emulators for other OSes
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ports-games: /usr/ports/games games
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ports-graphics: /usr/ports/graphics various graphics utilities
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ports-japanese: /usr/ports/japanese Japanese software.
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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 numerical computation software
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ports-misc: /usr/ports/misc miscellaneous utilities
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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-plan9: /usr/ports/plan9 various programs from Plan9
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ports-print: /usr/ports/print printing software
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ports-russian: /usr/ports/russian Russian software
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ports-security: /usr/ports/security ``security'' utilities, for better or for worse
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ports-shells: /usr/ports/shells various UN*X shells
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ports-sysutils: /usr/ports/sysutils system utilities
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ports-www: /usr/ports/www software related to the world wide web
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ports-x11: /usr/ports/x11 X11 software
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</verb>
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<p>If you want to keep updated on the original source of the ports,
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you can also add this to your supfile. But note that this collection
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is <em>enormous</em>, and unless you are an ftp site mirroring the
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entire FreeBSD tree (but cannot use ``mirror'' for some reason), you
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(and us) are much better off not using sup to collect these:
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<verb>
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ports-distfiles: /usr/ports/distfiles original tarballs
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</verb>
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