Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:33:18 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SUP server Message-ID: <199703270133.RAA02324@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326005617.670C-100000@shaman.lycaeum.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326005617.670C-100000@shaman.lycaeum.org>
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In article <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326005617.670C-100000@shaman.lycaeum.org>,
Andrew N. Edmond <edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org> wrote:
> Well, after spending a few hours reading all about CVSup, downloading the
> binary for my 2.1.5 machine, and getting a supfile from the stable tree,
> it's a no go.
> [...]
> I appreciate all the (*free*) work the development team puts into FreeBSD,
> but if I may be so bold as to ask for at least a little information and/or
> steps needed switch from being a SUP user to a CVSup user?
>
> Oh yes, here is the error I am receiving, and the three supfiles I've
> tried are attached:
> [...]
> shaman: {93} cvsup -g -L 2 supfile.cvsup
> Parsing supfile "supfile.cvsup"
> Nonexistent base directory "/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable" for
> collection "src-base"
I'm sorry you're having trouble, but the answer to this is in the
manual page:
base=base This specifies a directory under which cvsup will maintain
its bookkeeping files, describing the state of each collec-
tion on the client machine. The base directory must already
exist; cvsup will not create it. The default base directory
is /usr/local/etc/cvsup.
Just create the directory, and try again.
Section 17.2 of the FreeBSD Handbook might also be helpful.
--
John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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