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FREEBSD-UPDATE.CONF(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual FREEBSD-UPDATE.CONF(5) NAME freebsd-update.conf -- configuration file for freebsd-update(8) DESCRIPTION The freebsd-update.conf file controls the behaviour of the freebsd-update(8) utility. The file contains lines consisting of a case- sensitive option name and zero or more parameters. Empty lines and any part of a line following a `#' character are ignored. Unless stated oth- erwise, specifying an option multiple times is an error. The possible options and their meanings are as follows: KeyPrint The single parameter following this keyword is the SHA256 hash of the RSA key which will be trusted to sign updates. ServerName The single parameter following this keyword is the name of the server or server pool from which updates will be downloaded. Components The parameters following this keyword are the com- ponents or sub-components of FreeBSD which will be updated. The components are ``src'' (source code), ``world'' (non-kernel binaries), and ``kernel''; the sub-components are the individual distribution sets generated as part of the release process (e.g., ``src/base'', ``src/sys'', ``world/base'', ``world/catpages'', ``kernel/smp''). Note that prior to FreeBSD 6.1, the ``kernel'' component was distributed as part of ``world/base''. This option can be specified multiple times, and the parameters accumulate. IgnorePaths The parameters following this keyword are regular expressions; updates to paths which start with a string matching one of these regular expressions will be ignored. This option can be specified multiple times, and the parameters accumulate. IDSIgnorePaths The parameters following this keyword are regular expressions; paths which start with a string match- ing one of these regular expressions will be ignored by "freebsd-update IDS". This option can be specified multiple times, and the parameters accumulate. UpdateIfUnmodified The parameters following this keyword are regular expressions; updates to paths which start with a string matching one of these regular expressions will be ignored if the files have been modified locally (unless they are merged -- see MergeChanges below). This option can be specified multiple times, and the parameters accumulate. MergeChanges The parameters following this keyword are regular expressions; updates to paths which start with a string matching one of these regular expressions will be merged with local modifications. This option can be specified multiple times, and the parameters accumulate. WorkDir The single parameter following this keyword is the directory in which temporary files and downloaded updates will be stored. MailTo The single parameter following this keyword is the address to which cron output will be mailed. AllowAdd The single parameter following this keyword must be ``yes'' or ``no'' and specifies whether freebsd-update is allowed to create new files, directories, and symlinks if these are part of updates downloaded. Note that freebsd-update will not re-add files which have been deleted from a FreeBSD installation unless those files were previ- ously added as part of an update. AllowDelete The single parameter following this keyword must be ``yes'' or ``no'' and specifies whether freebsd-update is allowed to delete files, directo- ries, and symlinks as part of updates downloaded. KeepModifiedMetadata The single parameter following this keyword must be ``yes'' or ``no'' and specifies whether freebsd-update should keep existing file ownership, permissions, and flags when installing updates if these have been modified locally. StrictComponents The single parameter following this keyword must be ``yes'' or ``no'' and specifies whether freebsd-update should interpret the list of compo- nents of FreeBSD specified via the Components option strictly as a list of components installed which should be upgraded when the upgrade command is used ("yes"), or merely as a list of components which might be installed, of which freebsd-update should identify which in fact are present ("no"). FILES /etc/freebsd-update.conf Default location of the freebsd-update configu- ration file. SEE ALSO sha256(1), freebsd-update(8) AUTHORS Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD August 30, 2006 FreeBSD
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