From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 01:36:16 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 CC9B016A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:36:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF5B43D31 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:36:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E486105; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:36:15 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 56061-03; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:36:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D95A6107; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:36:13 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <419BFC9F.8050103@makeworld.com> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:36:31 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041113) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cscott@speakeasy.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.1.2 at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvups with 5.3 stable 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: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:36:16 -0000 cscott@speakeasy.net wrote: > Has anyone got cvsup to sucessfully update their ports collection? When I run cvsup, with tag=RELENG_5_3, cvsup just deletes everything in /usr/ports. I replaced the ports collection with the full port tarball from the ports collection search page. Cvsup deletes that as well. I am using the ports-supfile from examples, and have only change the cvsup host. Has anyone else experience this? > > Casey > > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > > To CVSup the ports - the ports-supfile ought to look like this: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix ports-all What you "seem" to be doing is CVSuping the src tree. I think your confused a bite - here's the lines for src: (STABLE) *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all -- Best regards, Chris Laugh and the world laughs with you. cry and ... you have to blow your nose.