Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:57:07 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Interrupted cvsup Message-ID: <01010620570707.76585@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101062317040.9110-100000@unix2.cc.ksu.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0101062317040.9110-100000@unix2.cc.ksu.edu>
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On Saturday 06 January 2001 20:29, you wrote: > Yes, I'm a newbie, and I just tried to cvsup my ports tree. However, for > aviplay to be installed, I need the newest version of qt, like 2.25 or > something like that. To get that, I have to uninstall 2.21 which I have > right now. However, in the ports tree under qt2.1 there is no makefile, > only a work directory and a readme file. The work directory has some more > make files, but I'm not sure exactly what the work directory is there for, > and none of the makefiles are the correct ones to deinstall qt. I'm lost > here, I don't exactly know what makefiles do, and I don't know how to get > back what I lost when I cvsupped. I looked at the cvsup logfile, and I > found the files, but I didn't know what I was looking at. Is there a way > I can rebuild the ports tree to what I had, or find that makefile, or even > go through and delete everything that qt2.1 installled? I didn't find > anything on this in cvsup or anywhere in the manual. > > -Josh > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To rebuild your ports directory make a file in /etc called cvsupfile-ports with the following: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup8.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress *default delete ports-all Launch cvsup with this command: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -P - -L 2 -g /etc/cvsupfile-ports This will rebuild your ports tree (and update too). Hope this helps. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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