From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 21:23:58 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 04FEB37B400 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (h24-71-223-10.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D44243E75 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:23:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from desmond.lee@shaw.ca) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G0081UHJTZ3@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:23:53 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml9so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.7]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H0G00JRPHJT4W@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:23:53 -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 <0H0G00DOYHJRJK@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 06 Aug 2002 22:23:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 21:27:14 -0700 From: Desmond Lee Subject: RE: Using CVSup In-reply-to: <1028693125.5567.40.camel@maui.destar.net> To: Jon Reynolds , freebsd-questions@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=iso-8859-1 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 Jon I just ran across this on the web (they're not examples), it's a pretty good read if you wanna review the basics of using cvsup. Not sure if this will help you, just thought i'd pass it along in case :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html Desmond -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jon Reynolds Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 9:05 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using CVSup On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 12:23, Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:21:36PM -0800, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > Okay I have installed the cvsup-without-gui from my ports directory and read > > through the link I was given and here is what I came up with. I created my > > own 'supfile.cvs' and have put it in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ folder thatI > > created. Here is my 'supfile.cvs': > > > > *default tag=. > > *default host=cvsup1.freebsd.org > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > ports-all > > > > I also created a refuse file and placed it in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ I > > created it by going into freebsd-current/ports and locating all the > > languages I dont speak and put them in my refuse file following this format: > > > > /ports/chinese > > /ports/german > > /ports/ etc. etc. etc. > > > > Now my questions, did I do all this right? Will this update my ports tree > > only and not download the languages I dont speak? Or did I completely miss > > what was written and end up with nothing at all? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Jon > > There are some pretty comprehensive examples installed into > /usr/share/examples/cvsup. Due to a bug, some of the packages in > the last week keep that dir empty. If you have the system sources > installed, you can look at /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup. > > To actually answer your question, I don't think you would be very > happy with what that supfile would do to your system. With the > examples in hand, you should get a far better grasp on what's going > on. If you're still uncertain at that point, feel free to mail me > directly. > > Josh I have looked all over my system for these examples and have found only one. Is there a place on the web where these examples are stored so that I can look at them? And uh..I actually already ran my cvsup using the format I had shown up above and it seemed to work fine, I checked a few of the ports and they where updated. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message