From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 0:26: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cricket.paradox.net.au (cricket.paradox.net.au [202.61.225.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E5314F72 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 00:25:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@cricket.paradox.net.au) Received: from localhost by cricket.paradox.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA22270 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:25:53 +0800 (WST) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:25:53 +0800 (WST) From: Peter Caffin To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: refuse files In-Reply-To: <19991217072604.B322@marder-1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Mark Ovens wrote: > On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 12:04:36AM +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > > My first thought was to go to polstra.com, and that's what i did, but the > > site is down. Is there a basic syntax for cvsup refuse files? > > > > This is a reply I got from John Polstra to virtually the same > question. The key point is 'relative to the "prefix" setting in your > supfile': > > > Aha, try this instead: > > > > doc/es* doc/ja* doc/ru* doc/zh* > > > > The patterns are relative to the "prefix" setting in your supfile, > > which for example is "/usr" in the "doc-supfile" example. So relative > > to "/usr", the files you want to reject are in "doc/es*", etc. Is there are list of files in the archive somewhere? Ideally, I'd love to update only the programs I've got currently installed, but, I'm concerned that I'll probably forget a large class of programs and end up downloading and compiling way too much. The machines I want to update don't have oodles of space, so this is a concern. Thanks for any comments. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message