From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 26 17:55:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA22472 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:55:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22464 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02324; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:33:19 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703270133.RAA02324@austin.polstra.com> To: edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org Subject: Re: SUP server Newsgroups: polstra.freebsd.stable In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:33:18 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , Andrew N. Edmond 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