From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 01:21:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EB316A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:21:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.170.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48BC443D2D for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:21:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from donaldj1066@fastmail.fm) Received: from unknown (HELO pres7000.mylan.net) (donaldj@ameritech.net@68.249.3.95 with plain) by smtp810.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 2004 01:21:51 -0000 From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:21:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1085FB14-F6F3-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <8E888478-F7B0-11D8-8159-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <412E6DD8.9090802@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <412E6DD8.9090802@daleco.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200408262021.07126.donaldj1066@fastmail.fm> Subject: Re: Messed up port updating (Was Re: Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:21:52 -0000 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