Installing from source

[punt]

I am running FreeBSD 9.0. I decided I wanted to learn some more, so decided to get familiar with building the system from source. I want to follow the latest stable 9 tree (so as it progresses through the 9.X series, I can just follow along).

Reading the handbook, it notes that cvs is going away, and subversion is the CM tool to use. I am not sure the status of csup (which is nice, as it comes with world and one doesn't have to add a port). Regardless, it would appear that subversion is the way to go for the future.

What I do not know, is what branch to check out. I think I want to do the following:

# svn checkout [url=svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9]svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9[/url] /usr/src

I believe this will let me track the 9.x stable , and move along as 9.X progresses. Is that correct?

 

[jb_fvwm2]

svn co svn://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src

90 percent certain the above line is correct....
I'd be sure to move any /usr/src (not/usr ) out of the way if it contains anything you want to keep. Else, if it exists, delete it first... carefully.

Sure hoping someone puts up a complex subversion command flowchart or table up before csup/cvs goes away...

 

[wblock@]

Yes, the more specific sites that should be used are shown in the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-svn.html.

It's not necessary to know much about svn to use it for source or ports checkout and updating. Check out is shown in your example. Updating is just
# svn up /usr/src

That's it. That's all you need to replace csup(1).