From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 21:57:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-197-3-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.3.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F86137B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:57:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DAAA149; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:57:22 -0900 (AKST) From: Beech Rintoul To: Joshua Delong Thomas Subject: Re: Interrupted cvsup Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 20:57:07 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010620570707.76585@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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