From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Oct 28 0: 1: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.jodeit.com (mail.jodeit.com [207.10.131.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E22437B409 for ; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdennyj [207.10.131.111] by mail.jodeit.com (SMTPD32-6.06) id AAFF15E6012C; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 01:51:43 -0500 Message-ID: <004901c15f7e$9b715b60$6f830acf@gdennyj> From: "Denny Jodeit" To: References: Subject: Re: probs with cvsup! Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 02:03:11 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-RBL-Warning: Inaccurate or missing WHOIS data X-Note: This E-mail was scanned by Declude JunkMail (www.declude.com) for spam. Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I run "cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile" > Connecting to cvsup1.freebsd.org > connected to cvsup1.freebsd.org > >>Then i get > "Protocol negotiation failed......etc... for upgrading information" > do i need to upgrade cvsup to the latest release or what iŽam doing wrong... > cvsup needs to be upgraded to a version produced after September 9, 2001 to avoid this error, because it has a bug in it that showed up on September 9, when the 1000000000 second in UNIX occurred. Up to date cvsup servers will reject your attempt to connect with an old cvsup. You can get a version of cvsup to install with pkg_add appropriate for your version of FreeBSD from: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jdp/s1g/ It's a good idea to send mail to majordomo@freebsd.org with the subscribe freebsd-announce message so you get announcements about critical stuff like this (and important security issues as well). Annelise Thanks, Annelise I've been studying cvs for some time and been afraid to even try it. Now, for all you following the thread, Annelise dropped a tip to us, and it finished the open circle that was my unsurety and lack of understanding with cvs. Read all you can, even if it's not totally pertinent to what you are looking for. It wasn't a direct tip to what I was pesonally unsure of, but i used tips and hints throughout this thread, combined with dogged research on the web, and I got it. I put it together. This is what makes FreeBSD & the FreeBSD community so cool. Learn to learn and share with others. It's what it's all about. It's so cool to get a killer upgrade and BillG makes no money on it :^) ...plus these upgrades really work Denny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message