From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Dec 11 17:14:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA01162 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 17:14:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from mars.abcinternet.net (drow@mars.abcinternet.net [205.216.244.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA01155 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 17:14:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drow@mars.abcinternet.net) Received: from localhost (drow@localhost) by mars.abcinternet.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA18913; Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:12:55 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 20:12:55 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Jacobowitz To: Mike Smith cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disappearing ports In-Reply-To: <199712112244.JAA01930@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry...yes, that comment is indeed in my stable-supfile. However: I would just like to point out that, as I said, I have used this very same supfile to rebuild my ports tree, and more than once to update src-all, without it wiping ports-all. No need to speculate why, I suppose...I stand corrected. Thank you. On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > They are *NOT*. > > See this excerpt from /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile: > > # DANGER! WARNING! LOOK OUT! VORSICHT! > # > # If you add any of the ports collections to this file, be sure to > # specify them like this: > # > # ports-all tag=. > # > # If you leave out the "tag=." portion, CVSup will delete all of > # the files in your ports tree. That is because "RELENG_2_1_0" and > # "RELENG_2_2" are not valid tags for the ports portion of the CVS > # repository. > > Now, without the relevant line(s) from your CVSupfile and the host that > you are CVSupping from, nobody can do anything more than speculate that > you've changed something and are looking for someone else to blame for > your mistake. >