From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 13:51:13 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 8682F37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:51:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A415B43FDD for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 13:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003080820511101600guogee>; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:51:11 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h78Kp7KS028844; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:51:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h78Kp6u0028841; Fri, 8 Aug 2003 16:51:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: John DeStefano References: <20030808203553.62089.qmail@web40603.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 08 Aug 2003 16:51:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030808203553.62089.qmail@web40603.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <44vft7euv9.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 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 20:51:13 -0000 John DeStefano writes: > Thanks Lowell. Well, your suggestions made sense and at the very least > have showed me that the host name in the file was wrong... I've now > changed it to an actual cvsup mirror (cvsup3.FreeBSD.org), and also > tested the file with and without adding "tag=." after "ports-all". But > I'm still getting the same error (Release not specified for collection > "host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org"). > Here's the file excluding commented-out lines: > ===== > host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org There's your problem. This line shouldn't be there. It doesn't start with *default, so cvsup tries to interpret it (the whole thing) as a collection name. > base=/usr > prefix=/usr Remove these too. > *default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=. > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > ports-all tag=. > ====== > These are the times when I feel like doing "rm -rf /"!! :( It could be worse: "user-friendly" software gives *fewer* indications of the source of a problem... :-)