Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 21:35:29 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Andy Akins" <andyakins@earthlink.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CVSUP and ports Message-ID: <00fc01c0ac49$02f0cee0$029b140a@danco>
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>Well, some of you might know what happened. Cvsup deleted all my ports.
>*poof*.
>
>Looking through the Complete FreeBSD, I discover what I had missed: that
for
>ports the only relevant tag is ., or CURRENT.
>
>Now getting the ports back is no big deal - I've got the CDs. But my
>question is: how do I keep my ports up to date?
Yes, you need 'tag=.' for the ports collection.
If you simply add:
ports-all tag=.
to your supfile and re-run cvsup, it will restore your ports collection.
Occasionally running cvsup with that line in it will also keep your ports
tree up to date. (I run cvsup weekly via /etc/crontab.)
Have fun!
--Dan
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