freebsd binaries

[Jeremy Mordkoff <mo...@acm.org>]

I have recently inherited a web site running on a hosted freebsd server.
It does not even have make on it. Just a web server and perl (as far as
I can tell).

I copied off all of the scripts and html pages to my home server, set up
an SVN repository, checked them in, did some cleanup and checked in
that.

Now I would like to checkout the updated versions on the web server.
Guess what? No svn. No make. And not a lot of disk space.

Does someone have freebsd binaries? I think I will need gdiff, et al
also. 

I suppose I could setup a cache somewhere, checkout into the cache and
then copy the cache to the server, but in reality, I would have to copy
back too, because there are some key data files on the server that
really should be backed up. If I could get this working, then a simple
'svn commit' would be my backup tool and 'svn update' would do my
upgrades.

JLM



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Jeremy Mordkoff
mordkoff@acm.org

Re: freebsd binaries

[Jerry McAllister <je...@msu.edu>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:43:48PM -0400, Jeremy Mordkoff wrote:

> I have recently inherited a web site running on a hosted freebsd server.
> It does not even have make on it. Just a web server and perl (as far as
> I can tell).
> 
> I copied off all of the scripts and html pages to my home server, set up
> an SVN repository, checked them in, did some cleanup and checked in
> that.
> 
> Now I would like to checkout the updated versions on the web server.
> Guess what? No svn. No make. And not a lot of disk space.
> 
> Does someone have freebsd binaries? I think I will need gdiff, et al
> also. 

Probably the easiest thing is to just install FreeBSD on a machine.
It will run on almost anything in the i386 line as sell as the 
newer AMD64 and IA64 stuff and some others.   Then you can install
subversion from ports (/usr/ports/devel/subversion)

All of the instal ISOs for FreeBSD are available via anonymous FTP
from ftp.freebsd.org.   Log in as ID  'anonymous'  with your Email address
as password.  Then cd to
   pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/

and then to the version you want.   Versions 6.3 and 7.0 are the
most recent releases (in FreeBSD you want a 'RELEASE' version instead
of current or stable)

If you have a reasonably good network connection, then you only 
need the disc1 ISO.   You start the install and it pulls everything
else it wants over the net.   If your net connection is slow or
unreliable, then also get disc2 and disc3.

You should read the installation section of the FreeBSD handbook
on the FreeBSD web site --    /www.freebsd.org/

Once you get it installed, then install subversion from ports.

////jerry

> 
> I suppose I could setup a cache somewhere, checkout into the cache and
> then copy the cache to the server, but in reality, I would have to copy
> back too, because there are some key data files on the server that
> really should be backed up. If I could get this working, then a simple
> 'svn commit' would be my backup tool and 'svn update' would do my
> upgrades.
> 
> JLM
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> -------------------------
> Jeremy Mordkoff
> mordkoff@acm.org

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