From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 5 23:34:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.XtremeDev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED1B37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 23:34:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from xtremedev.com (xtremedev.com [216.241.38.65]) by mail.XtremeDev.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 629B013657; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:34:15 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 00:34:14 -0600 (MDT) From: FreeBSD To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Manas , Subject: Re: what is wrong with this supfile In-Reply-To: <20010905214844.A83817@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20010906002805.R95178-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Why not just use the example supfile supplied by FreeBSD? cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile -h cvsup5.freebsd.org That command will update your ports tree rooted at /usr/ports. If you don't have /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile, grab it here: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:42:41PM -0700, Manas wrote: > > hi, > > I want to get latest ports collection from freebsd > > site. i have written a supfile for that. But as soon > > as i run it i get the following error :-- > > nonexistent base directory > > /archive/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current for collection > > Well, does that directory exist? > > > *default host=cvsup-master.freebsd.org > > This part would be the next to fail. cvsup-master isn't a public > cvsup server. > > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message