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From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com>
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Subject: Re: problem with supfile
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On Saturday 18 August 2007 19:47:21 Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Pollywog wrote:
> > Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working.  I think the
> > problem is the tag but I am unsure why:
> >
> > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2
> > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> >
> > # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth,
> > try # commenting out the following line.  (Normally, today's CPUs are
> > fast enough # that you want to run compression.)
> > *default compress
> >
> > # This collection retrieves the www/ tree of the FreeBSD repository
> > #www
> > ports-all
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> Since this is obviously a ports-supfile, are you sure you want to cvsup
> the RELENG_6_2 ports;
> These refer to the ports tree at the exact point when 6.2 was released.
> You already have them, you installed that ports tree from your CDROM
> during installation.
> Instead, you probably need a line like:
>
> *default release=cvs tag=.
>
> to get the latest available ports.

Thanks, that has to be it, because on my laptop, I have it as above and it 
works.  The problem is that when I updated src-ports with a similar supfile, 
I ended up with FreeBSD 7 on the laptop.