From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 18 01:39:08 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 ECADB16A4CE for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:39:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.io.com (smtp.io.com [206.224.87.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF7D43D48 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:39:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Received: from io.com (aus-as1-76.io.com [199.170.90.76]) by smtp.io.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id iAI1cqcP063173; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:39:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from eighner@io.com) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:35:22 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner To: cscott@speakeasy.net In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20041117193046.E2718@goodwill.io.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 01:39:09 -0000 On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 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? NEVER use any tag for ports except . It will always delete the whole tree if you use any tag other than . Ports do *not* come in releases, and since RELENG_5_3 is not . using it will always delete the whole tree. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266