Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:12:13 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup not getting any files Message-ID: <20010123121212.A84975@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20010123123650.B17155@xs4all.nl>; from rene@xs4all.nl on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:36:50PM %2B0100 References: <20010123123650.B17155@xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:36:50PM +0100, rene@xs4all.nl wrote:
> Hi. I've done the following:
>
> ran a 3.4-stable system satisfactorilly, wanted to switch to 4.x
>
> various attempts to upgrade 4.x failed using CVS and make world
>
> re-installed using ISO 4.1 image from ftp.freebsd.org by booting from CD
> and leaving the filesystem intact but 're-installing' the system.
>
> installed additional packages using /stand/sysinstall
>
> and all that worked;
>
> 12# uname -a
> FreeBSD messenger 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 17 18:12:40
> CET 2000
> root@messenger:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> Altough the system provides me with samba and inet services, I then wanted
> to proceed to further upgrade my system to the STABLE branch, because I still
> couldn't get IPFilter installed.
>
> using the following cvsup as such
>
> cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/secure-stable-supfile
>
> where /etc/secure-stable-supfile reads:
>
> # Defaults that apply to all the collections
> *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=FreeBSD-STABLE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Try RELENG_4
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
>
> src-all
>
> (without the tabs, btw ;)
> this outputs:
>
> Parsing supfile "secure-stable-supfile"
> Looking up address of cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org
> Connecting to cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org
> Connected to cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org
> Server software version: REL_16_1
> Negotiating file attribute support
> Exchanging collection information
> Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection
> Running
> Updating collection src-all/cvs
> --> for a long time nothing happens <--
> Shutting down connection to server
> Finished successfully
>
> but there are NO new files in /usr/src!!!
>
> Changing the server to cvsup.FreeBSD.org didn't make
> ANY difference, unfortunately.
>
> To tell you the truth, I'm getting fairly fed up with it all.
> All I wanted was to migrate to 4.x in order to use ipFilter easilly,
> and it's turned out to be quite a nightmare for me; after 4 weeks still no
Try using RELENG_4 as the tag, not FreeBSD-STABLE, then you'll get all the
new files.
--
Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org
"Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?"
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