From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 19 13:19:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2369337B42C for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 13:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA24442; Sun, 19 May 2002 13:19:17 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE808C4.7040904@owt.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 13:19:16 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "P. Jourdan" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020519153135.00ac2f38@mail.host45.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020519160148.00a8f938@pop.videotron.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 P. Jourdan wrote: > At 12:56 PM 5/19/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >> PJourdan wrote: >> >>> I am a little confused (again): I update my ports with: >>> cvsu /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile >>> Question-problems: >>> 1. When configured for the default tag = . everything seems to work >>> fine. If I use RELENG_4_5 - it's wipe-out time. kThe ports are >>> totally erased. What's going on here? >> >> >> >> It did what you told it to do, i.e., cvsup the RELENG_4_5 ports and >> there were none. The "tag=." is the tag for the ports and the docs. > > > You mean that there are no ports for the 4.5 release? I don't understand. > I do recall though, that when I ran it with the RELENG_4_5 tag, the port > database (I forget just where it is) was fully updated; only there were > not ports under /usr/ports :(( The ports don't follow the releases. There is only one real set of ports for all of the releases and they follow current or "tag=.". Kent > > > >>> 2. When I run portdb -Uu, I get a lot of error messages regarding >>> those ports that I don't download, like the japanese stuff, hebrew, >>> russian, vietnamese & a lot of other stuff that is useless for me. >>> How can I clean this act? >> >> >> >> I had one setup that kept complaining about p5-* and liba52 and when I >> installed liba52, most of the messages went away. > > > OK, but I hope you're not suggesting that I install all the garbage I > don't want. %( > What I want to know is how to synchronize the database with the actual > ports I have downloaded... > Thanks, > Phil > > > . > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message