Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 23:04:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Paul R Culmo <pculmo@obs2.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Problems with cvsup and updating files. Message-ID: <20040731230425.2284cf83.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407312236460.30842-100000@MicronLinuxBox.obs2.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407312236460.30842-100000@MicronLinuxBox.obs2.net>
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Paul R Culmo <pculmo@obs2.net> 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
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