From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 15:38: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pluto.ipass.net (pluto.ipass.net [198.79.53.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF92E14D08 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 15:38:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mmercer@ipass.net) Received: from ipass.net (ts2-106-ppp.ipass.net [207.120.205.106]) by pluto.ipass.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA19825; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:37:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36E9A5CD.5073D25C@ipass.net> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:39:57 -0500 From: "Michael E. Mercer" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Pavelcak , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Question/comment about cvsup supfiles. References: <36E99F2E.8FF47274@ipass.net> <19990312181951.A33375@oitunix.oit.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg, Thanks for the quick response. however it looks like I need to be spoon fed here. I think I understand it to be, create a directory /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ports-all in this directory create a file called 'refuse'. If I am correct here, Great! But what exactly goes in this file. PLease give me an example, say for instance I don't need the russian stuff? Thanks Michael Greg Pavelcak wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > > Hello team, > > > > I used to use the ports-supfile with ports-all commented > > out, because I do not need the other languages (ie. korean,russian. > > etc..). However when the ports tree changes and/or a new directory > > is created, I do not get it. > > > > Using the ports-all, Is it possible to add say a minus '-' in front > > of those directories you do not want so as to get any new directories > > that may come? > > > > Yes. man cvsup and look for info on "refuse files". > > Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message