From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 17:22:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Spaz.HuntsvilleAL.COM (spaz.huntsvilleal.com [63.147.8.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D62E37B71A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 17:22:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@catonic.net) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by Spaz.HuntsvilleAL.COM (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA08788; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:21:48 GMT (envelope-from kris@catonic.net) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 01:21:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Kris Kirby X-Sender: kris@spaz.huntsvilleal.com To: Kris Kennaway Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup beginner - missing ports? In-Reply-To: <20010226165950.A22101@mollari.cthul.hu> Message-ID: X-Tech-Support-Email: bofh@catonic.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > This works for updating the source to -STABLE, but I'm missing ports. I've > > rm -rf'd /usr/ports and it hasn't been replaced. What, pray tell, is the > > magic incantation to make the -STABLE ports tree? > > See /usr/share/examples/cvsup > > Kris > P.S. There isn't a -STABLE ports tree, there's just one tree which > supports both -stable and -current. This was the most enlightening bit of wisdom in the message; that one little glimmer... Upon futher inspection, I came to realize that the correct tag for the ports tree is (in this case) "tag=.". The -STABLE tree is (also in this case) "tag=RELENG_4". If only this answer popped up more often in the search than the "Go stare at these files" answer. ----- Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. | ------------------------------------------------------- "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message