From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 26 16:14:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D124D37B401 for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:14:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4107843FBD for ; Mon, 26 May 2003 16:14:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scott@bsdprophet.org) Received: from adsl-67-39-36-114.dsl.milwwi.ameritech.net (HELO bsdprophet.org) (bsdprophet%sbcglobal.net@67.39.36.114 with plain) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 May 2003 23:14:36 -0000 Message-ID: <3ED29FE4.3020906@bsdprophet.org> Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 18:14:44 -0500 From: Scott Corey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en-us, ja, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: timmssimon@shaw.ca References: <63baa65008.6500863baa@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <63baa65008.6500863baa@shaw.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup & ports collection X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 23:14:39 -0000 timmssimon@shaw.ca wrote: > Hi, > I have just tried to update my ports collection using CVSup. I followed the instructions in the hand book and specified the following: > > *default host=cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org Keep > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup keep > *default prefix=/usr keep > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress remove try this instead *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_4 <--- if you want the latest 4.x stable *default delete use-rel-suffix > > src-all > add between these two " *default tag=. " don't include the "", this will give you the latest ports. > ports-all > > > The CVSup seems to run fine. I am left, however, with a large number of files with ",v" appended to the end. Is there some sort of merger procedure which I should follow to update my current files and to rename the new files to their name without the ",v"?