From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 4 1:48:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD47137B400 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 01:48:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B72143E65 for ; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 01:48:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA14539; Sun, 4 Aug 2002 01:48:19 -0700 Message-ID: <3D4CEA52.8040108@owt.com> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:48:18 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bsd@xtremedev.com Cc: karl agee , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my ports got wiped out! References: <20020804024134.K6988-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message