From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 13:26:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A4F152EE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 13:26:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #3) id 11ovXm-000Nfe-00; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:26:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA29966; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:26:10 GMT (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:26:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Johan Pettersson , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: cvsup In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >argh! John dammit... > >that will wipe his ports tree afaik, what is most important >is the file should be changed to: > >--- > >*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup >*default host=cvsup.se.FreeBSD.org >*default base=/usr >*default prefix=/usr >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_3 >*default delete use-rel-suffix >src-all >*default tag=. >ports-all > >--- > >without the second 'tag' line there's a good chance his >/usr/ports will be wiped out as there is no tag 'RELENG_3' >in the ports cvs repo. > >I know you're trying to be helpful, just also remeber to be >careful. :) Ah, yes, i see. Point taken. > >-Alfred > >> >> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote: >> >> >Hello! >> > >> >I have read about cvsup and tested it. >> >But I think I didn't understand it right! >> >From my stable-supfile: >> > >> >*default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup >> >*default host=cvsup.se.FreeBSD.org >> >*default base=/usr >> >*default prefix=/usr >> >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_3 >> >*default delete use-rel-suffix >> >src-all >> > >> >I thought this would upgrade the ports collection! >> >But from what I understand it didn't ? >> >Can someone help me with the syntax ? (staying stable) >> > >> >//thx Johan >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >> >> >> -jm >> >> --------- >> He who laughs last... obviously didn't get the joke. >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] >Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer > - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] > > > -jm --------- He who laughs last... obviously didn't get the joke. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message