sup'', and how do I use it?sup'', and how do I use it?SUP stands for Software Update Protocol, and was developed by CMU for keeping their development trees in sync. We use it to keep remote sites in sync with our central development sources.
Unless you have direct internet connectivity, and don't care too
much about the cost/duration of the sessions, you shouldn't use
sup. For those ``low/expensive-bandwidth'' applications, we have
developed CTM, see the section
on CTM
for more about that.
To use it, you need to have direct internet connectivity (not
just mail or news). First, pick up the sup.tgz package
from:
Second, read the file /usr/src/share/FAQ/Text/sup.FAQ.
This file describes how to setup sup on your machine. You may
also want to look at
/usr/src/share/FAQ/extras/*.supfile, or you may grab
updated supfiles from:
which are a set of supfiles for supping from FreeBSD.ORG.
sup'', and how do I use it?