Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:02:27 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Rick Berger <rickbsgu@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't cvsup ports? Message-ID: <20040707200227.GA31307@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040707194921.16675.qmail@web12010.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040707194921.16675.qmail@web12010.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:49:20PM -0700, Rick Berger wrote: > Hi, - > > Trying to cvsup ports-base (as a start). I have no ports directory, > as of yet, so this should be a fresh cvs checkout. My supfile looks > like this: > > --------------------- > # ports supfile > > *default host=cvsup5.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > ports-base > ---------------------- > > So, I execute cvsup with a '-g -L2' and it goes through the motions and seems > to think it checked out the collection. I look under /usr/sup and there's > directory 'ports-base', and there's a checkout file in there with a list of > stuff it thinks it checked out. > > But, there's no ports directory when it's done, or anything else. I've tried > different servers (14 and 15). I tried to "help it along" by creating a ports > directory, but that didn't matter. I've scoured the disk after it's done (`find > / -d ports`) and nothing shows. I've tried several iterations, removing the > /usr/sup/ports-base directory each time (so it presumably starts from scratch.) > Same non-result. > > Note that cvsup seems to work fine with src-all/docs-all. I also tried > ports-all - no go. > > Any idea what's up? First of all, it is strongly recommened that you use ports-all without a refuse file. It will save you pain if you want to build an INDEX later. Second, and more importantly there is no RELENG_4_9 tag. It's RELEASE_4_9_0 for ports (though you probably don't want a tag at all since that will result in an out of date ports collection which contains known security problems.) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7FbSXY6L6fI4GtQRAs4XAKDdfF1XVNlE8uNKVtY8zjqMPTvPXACg0/GY 52jwWnv07MNYcGaMMcSFY7U= =IdA3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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