From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 18:13:51 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 F128D37B400; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:13:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd6mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D35E43E42; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from desmond.lee@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr3so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.108]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G00E4R8Q60B@l-daemon>; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 19:13:18 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml6so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml6so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.150]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G00D6E8QZNZ@l-daemon>; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 19:13:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: from wetworks (h24-77-108-85.vc.shawcable.net [24.77.108.85]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with SMTP id <0H0G00FM18QSD2@l-daemon>; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 19:13:47 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 18:17:04 -0700 From: Desmond Lee Subject: RE: some questions about upgrade and /etc/ files In-reply-to: <3D4F91F4.E25E8EAD@pantherdragon.org> To: Darren Pilgrim Cc: freebsd-questions , scott@bsdprophet.org, kstewart@owt.com, grog@FreeBSD.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal 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 Hi Darren Thanks so much for the help. The following i put in file called etc-supfile in the dir: /usr/share/example/cvsup/ *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org *default base=/home/dmp/cvs *default prefix=/home/dmp/cvs/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-etc src-crypto But, for some reason it didn't work and i got a message saying "nonexistent base dir "/home/dmp/cvs" for collection "src-etc" Also, i was wondering, what happens when i use this supfile in the following command 'cvsup -g -L2 etc-supfile'. So, when i execute this command it will get the /etc/ files from the 4.4 release version of the source tree and where will it put them? >It's already well established that your /etc directory isn't in good >shape. I'd say pull down the 4.4-R /etc files, put them in by hand, >go through and reconfigure them to your system, and run mergemaster -p >again. So, i have to do a comparison by hand for all the files in the /etc/ dir. Is there any quick and effecient way to do this? Also, what do i do about the directories that are in the /etc/ folder? Do i have to update all the stuff in thoes too? Thanks again for your help regards Desmond To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message