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