Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:21:07 -0500 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" <donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Messed up port updating (Was Re: Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?) Message-ID: <200408262021.07126.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: <412E6DD8.9090802@daleco.biz> References: <1085FB14-F6F3-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <8E888478-F7B0-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <412E6DD8.9090802@daleco.biz>
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Hello Kevin, Actually Curtis' sup file would be just fine with one small change: the line "ports-all" should be changed to "ports-all tag=." If he makes this change it could save him a lot of grief at a later time, if he decides it's time to upgrade source, and comments out or replaces the "ports-all" line with src. If that happens, he'll get a surprise he won't forget. My preference would be to also change: "*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup" to "default base=/usr". I can't really explain why I like it better like that, it's just the way I learned to do it and it works well for me. Don ////////////////// On Thursday 26 August 2004 06:10 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: > Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > > Here's how I edited my ports-supfile > > > > *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > ports-all > > > > Did I do something horribly wrong? > > Yes. Well, not horrible, but this was pilot error. > > As I think you've been told once already recently > (or at least someone has told someone else within > the last 48 hours or so) you ***must*** use: > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > (that's a dot or 'period'), because the ports tree isn't > tagged like the RELENG branches are. > > So, in your case, cvsup replaced your extant ports > tree with all the ones from the release it couldn't > find, which happened to be nil ... and your ports > collection is now blank. > > Kevin Kinsey > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Donald J. O'Neill donaldj1066@fastmail.fm
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