Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:54:16 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Brian T. Allen" <brian@gzmarketing.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Nigel Taylor <latifa@iinet.net.au> Subject: Re: Cvsup and ports Message-ID: <20010220115415.E35631@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <008901c09b5a$bf7fce80$2618b3cf@picard>; from brian@gzmarketing.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:32:42AM -0700 References: <001401c09adc$54e5c1c0$4501a8c0@a> <20010220064430.B9031@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <008901c09b5a$bf7fce80$2618b3cf@picard>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 09:32:42AM -0700, Brian T. Allen wrote: > I am a newbie, and I just went through this. I installed 4.2 from ISO, then > did a CVSup and got that same error. It said to look at Q12 and Q13, which > I did. I missed the answer the first time, but it IS there. > > My solution was to just delete the entire ports directory (which took > forever! I am coming from Linux and deleting that much would have taken > 1/10th the time. Perhaps it is in my SCSI config...) and then CVSup, which Linux mounts the filesystems in a very dangerous mode (async) by default. You can do this on FreeBSD too, but you will probably lose data, possibly even the entire partition, if things crash unfortuitously. Enable SOFTUPDATES instead, which is almost as fast as async, but with none of the dangers. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6kstnWry0BWjoQKURAuxHAKDI+HIqE/tCD/+x4aolRgf7SZ9rkwCeO+uM bfdLQXtTT6fjjQmBAM5CzWA= =q8Nw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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