From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 26 07:42:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA17150 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 07:42:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from Bob.cstone.net (bob.cstone.net [205.197.102.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA17143 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 07:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from Gosub.cstone.net ([205.197.102.33]) by Bob.cstone.net (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-11972) with ESMTP id AAA2588; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:42:27 -0500 Message-ID: <333944D3.5B39@cstone.net> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:46:28 -0500 From: pauln@cstone.net (Paul Nguyen) Reply-To: pauln@cstone.net Organization: Cornerstone Networks X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b2 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew N. Edmond" CC: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUP server X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew N. Edmond wrote: > On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > > The SUP server "sup.FreeBSD.org" appears to be down, and has been for > > several days. > > > Sup has been dead for several months now, but they finally decided > to bury it over the past few days :) > > Check out CVSup, which is what replaced sup Well, after spending a few hours reading all about CVSup, downloading the binary for my 2.1.5 machine, and getting a supfile from the stable tree, it's a no go. Most of my FreeBSD friends were using sup to download the updated source/port trees and this unexpected switch is causing no end of trouble! I appreciate all the (*free*) work the development team puts into FreeBSD, but if I may be so bold as to ask for at least a little information and/or steps needed switch from being a SUP user to a CVSup user? Oh yes, here is the error I am receiving, and the three supfiles I've tried are attached: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shaman: {96} less supfile.cvsup # # Note: this supfile is for ftp.FreeBSD.org to sup the FreeBSD sources # from sup.FreeBSD.ORG, not for the use of YOUR machine! For # supfiles suitable for general consumption, please look into # FreeBSD-current/src/share/FAQ/extras. # #src-eBones release=cvs host=freefall.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 #src-secure release=cvs host=freefall.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-all release=cvs host=freefall.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shaman: {93} cvsup -g -L 2 supfile.cvsup Parsing supfile "supfile.cvsup" Nonexistent base directory "/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable" for collection "src-base" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shaman: {94} cvsup -g -L 2 supfile Parsing supfile "supfile" Nonexistent base directory "/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable" for collection "src-base" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shaman: {95} less supfile # # Note: this supfile is for ftp.FreeBSD.org to sup the FreeBSD sources # from sup.FreeBSD.ORG, not for the use of YOUR machine! For # supfiles suitable for general consumption, please look into # FreeBSD-current/src/share/FAQ/extras. # src-base release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-bin release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete olduse-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-eBones release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-etc release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-games release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-gnu release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-include release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-lib release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-libexec release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-sbin release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-secure release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-share release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-sys release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-usrbin release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 src-usrsbin release=cvs host=sup.FreeBSD.org base=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable hostbase=/home prefix=/archive/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-stable delete old use-rel-suffix tag=RELENG_2_1_0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I think you are using the sup supfiles, I maybe wrong though. Take a look in /usr/share/examples/cvsup for the cvsup supfiles, they look a little different. Though it took the sup fileserver to be down to get me to figure out there was a new method, I wouldn't go back to sup now if it came back up, cvsup is a lot faster and a lot cleaner. -Paul