From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 1 03:04:30 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 5FDF816A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 03:04:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from internet.potentialtech.com (h-66-167-251-6.phlapafg.covad.net [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F217743D53 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 03:04:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from working.potentialtech.com (pa-plum-cmts1e-68-68-113-64.pittpa.adelphia.net [68.68.113.64]) by internet.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16A9769A71; Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:04:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:04:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Paul R Culmo Message-Id: <20040731230425.2284cf83.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Potential Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Problems with cvsup and updating files. 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: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 03:04:30 -0000 Paul R Culmo wrote: > > wGreetings, > > I've been a newbie on FreeBSD 5.2.1 now for about a month. I Have had > much success lately but I wanted to try the cvsup and update the sources > (/usr/src) so I can stay current on patches and security updates. > > I've managed to create a cvsupfile but all the docs I've read do not > instruct you how to update the old files with the new files. Does this > happen automatically or do I need to create a script to do it ? > > I setup my cvsupfile to grab src-all and it downloaded but now I have > filenames with a ,v for almost every file. Like Makefile and now there is > a Makefile,v in /usr/src and make buildworld will not compile anymore. It > get errors when trying to build tools. > > Below is a snip of my cvsupfile, did I do something wrong? Yes, I think your supfile is wrong. > --snip-- > > *default host=ftp4.us.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE ^^^ This line is what I believe is wrong, replace it with these two lines: *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_5_2_1_RELEASE Although I would recommend tag=RELENG_5_2_1, but that's you're call. > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > > *default compress > > src-all > ports-base > ports-www > #cvsroot-common > #cvsroot-src > #cvsroot-ports > #cvsroot-doc -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com