From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 11:25:32 2003 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 7AD0D37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web40609.mail.yahoo.com (web40609.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF90043F3F for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deesto@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030808182531.83154.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [143.48.14.233] by web40609.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 11:25:31 PDT Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:25:31 -0700 (PDT) From: John DeStefano To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <448yq4aviv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports-supfile file problem 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, 08 Aug 2003 18:25:32 -0000 --- Lowell Gilbert wrote: > John DeStefano writes: > > > I'm trying to update my ports tree to address some possible > solutions > > posted here to another problem. The command I'm running is: > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ports-supfile > > > > Here's the result: > > Parsing supfile "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ports-supfile" > > Release not specified for collection "host=ftp3.FreeBSD.org" > > > > And here's the relevent portion of the file: > > > > *default host=ftp3.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/usr > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > > > I've also tried simply "cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile" and "cvsup > > ports-supfile", which both return the same error. > > I assume this is in relation to the line "*default release=cvs > tag=.", > > but I'm following the handbook and the sample file by leaving > "tag=.". > > I also tried changing "." to the correct cvs tag (RELENG_5_0) and > got > > the same results. > > What am I doing wrong? > > You need a collection name in the file. Meaning, "ports-all", or un-commenting a selection of port types? I've got that. I included above only the portion of the file I thought was relevent to the 'release' problem I'm having. Thanks, John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com