Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:35:22 -0600 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> To: "Z. Wade Hampton" <zwade@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reposted question Message-ID: <4589826A.40502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200612201030.30408.zwade@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org> References: <200612201030.30408.zwade@oldpathsbaptistchurch.org>
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Well, if it were me, I'd simply do:
# rm -r /home/ncvs
Then I'd change "prefix='home/ncvs" to "prefix=/usr", just so I could
cvsup the ports tree if I ever wanted to.
But after makeing that change, I'd run:
# portsnap fetch extract
And know that that next time I wanted to update the ports tree, I'd run:
# portsnap fetch update
Followed by (since I'd have portupgrade installed) running:
# portversion -v | grep needs or some other method of
dtermining which ports needed upgrading.
But that's just me, and the way I would do it. There are other ways.
Don
Z. Wade Hampton wrote:
> Hello to all,
> Not long ago, I ran cvsup "successfully".
> In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist:
>
> # base=/var/db
> # This specifies the root where CVSup will store information
> # about the collections you have transferred to your system.
> # A setting of "/var/db" will generate this information in
> # /var/db/sup. Even if you are CVSupping a large number of
> # collections, you will be hard pressed to generate more than
> # ~1MB of data in this directory. You can override the
> # "base" setting on the command line with cvsup's "-b base"
> # option. This directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
> #
> # prefix=/home/ncvs
> # This specifies where to place the requested files. A
> # setting of "/home/ncvs" will place all of the files
> # requested in /home/ncvs (e.g., "/home/ncvs/src/bin",
> # "/home/ncvs/ports/archivers"). The prefix directory
> # must exist in order to run CVSup.
>
>
>
> I attempted running cvsup with "base" and "prefix" locations other than the
> ones stated above; and, it did not work.
>
> However, when I edited the supfile as described above, the whole process ran
> to completion, "successfully".
>
> Well, now I have an updated ports tree in /home/ncvs/ports instead
> of /usr/ports.
>
> So, my question this morning is what do I do with that? Do I
> treat /home/ncvs/ports as if it were /usr/ports?
>
> Do I copy the entire /home/ncvs/ports directory to /usr/ports for updated
> ports?
>
> Thank you in advance for directives.
>
> Z. Wade Hampton
> Twin Bridges, Montana
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