Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 15:53:55 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 6.1 (cvsup) Message-ID: <17504.62291.380603.709216@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <4460D22D.8070001@gmail.com> References: <62b856460605090453o24f7de34ka71fffa392bfdedb@mail.gmail.com> <C60DD298-4A89-4B75-A3AF-88C612C47065@shire.net> <4460CC0B.8050209@gmail.com> <17504.52960.813275.969325@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <4460D22D.8070001@gmail.com>
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John Cruz writes: > > What particularly of cvsup do you find confusing? > > Specifically it would be the supfile stuff, everything I've been > reading says "if you put in the wrong thing here, you can screw > the whole system up", A bad supfile will mess up _the source tree_; one could possibly screw up the system by setting "prefix=/" ... but that's rather farfetched. And the cure for a garbled source tree is a) put the right stuff in the supfile then b) "rm -rf /usr/src/*" and c) re-run cvsup. Robert Huff
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