From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 07:03:52 2005 Return-Path: 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 B741C16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:03:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.117]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0538C43D41 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayobrien@att.net) Received: from [192.168.1.6] (dsl093-180-184.sac1.dsl.speakeasy.net[66.93.180.184]) by worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc13) with ESMTP id <20050327070350113003bf3ne>; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:03:51 +0000 Message-ID: <42465AD0.30406@att.net> Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 23:03:44 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - questions References: <424645D0.2010705@att.net> <42464B4C.7010100@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42464B4C.7010100@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: CVSup questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 07:03:52 -0000 Subhro wrote: > Jay O'Brien wrote: /snip/ > >>I built src-all and ports-all. Now, there is a /usr/ports >>directory and and lots of directories and files therein. In >>/usr/ports, I did make fetchindex. It failed. The >>/usr/ports/Makeindex file was really Makeindex,v. I copied it >>as Makeindex, and tried make fetchindex again. It showed many >>errors, finally "fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue". >> > > You probably used CVS instead of cvsup. CVS, also known as Concurrent > Version System is a mechanism which allows developers to manage codebase > on which more than one individual is working simultaneously. When some > change is made to a file "foo.bar" managed by a CVS, a file called > "foo.bar,v" is created by the CVS. This file contains all the > information about what changed and who changed it along with the > comments which a developer might have provided during updating the file > "foo.bar". Just to add, using the foo.bar,v file along with foo.bar, any > version of the file may be created that ever existed. > > No, I used cvsup. However, I was idly reading through all of the CVSup FAQ, and I found my problem. It explained that my supfile didn't have "tag=." and I knew that it did. Sure enough, a typo. I used a - instead of an =. It read "tag-.". Now, with it correct, pkg_version works. And now I understand the ,v indicates RCS files. /snip/ > > Best of Luck and welcome to the wonderful world where most of the things > are free :-) Thank you very much, I really appreciate your quick and thoughtful answer. Jay > > Best Regards, > S.