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Date:      Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:48:18 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        bsd@xtremedev.com
Cc:        karl agee <kdagee@attglobal.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: my ports got wiped out!
Message-ID:  <3D4CEA52.8040108@owt.com>
References:  <20020804024134.K6988-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>

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bsd@xtremedev.com wrote:

>>I just installed 4.6-release, with ports and all, installed cvsup, with a new
>>supfile (below) and ran it.
>>
>>It deleted all of my ports!!!!  how did THAT happen???
>>
>>(I thought you were supposed to put **delete** in the default-release line so
>>it could get rid of the crud it didnt need....)
>>
>>--karl
>>
>>*default host=cvsup8.Freebsd.org
>>*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
>>*default prefix=/usr
>>*default release=cvs
>>*default tag=RELENG_4
>>*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
>>
>>#src-all
>>ports-all
>>#docs-all
>>
>>
> 
> 
>>From http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html:
> 
> Warning: Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags
> are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an
> incorrect or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do
> not want deleted. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.
> 
> 
> Ports don't have branches. So RELENG_4 means nothing to it. You either
> have the latest ports, or you don't.
> 


The same thing applies to docs. You only have "tag=.".

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html


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