cvs -d anoncvs@anoncvs.fr.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs co -r RELENG_8_1_0_RELEASE src/contrib/csup

* Copy the csup code into a pristine work place

mkdir $HOME/debian
cp -r src/contrib/csup $HOME/debian/csup-8.1.0

* Tell the world who you are

export DEBFULLNAME="Emmanuel Kasper"
export DEBEMAIL="random_joe@libera.cc"

* Create initial debian/rules files

cd $HOME/debian/csup-8.1.0
dh_make -s --createorig

• Create your supfile for last FreeBSD stable release ( Directories mentionned in the supfile must pre-exist )

cat > supfile << EOF 
*default tag=RELENG_8_1_0_RELEASE
*default host=cvsup1.fr.FreeBSD.org
*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
*default prefix=/tmp/freebsd
*default base=/tmp/freebsd/db-sup/
src-contrib
EOF

• Run it

csup -L2 supfile