From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 18 5:10:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542AE14F73 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 05:10:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [1.1.1.3] (203.108.213.32) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Sat, 18 Dec 1999 23:40:32 +1030 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:10:24 +1100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jesse reynolds Subject: Using CVSUP to update the Ports collection... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there I'm new to CVSUP and how you use it. I've been following the instructions in Greg Lehey's book. I'm trying to update the ports collection in my FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE system, in an effort to bring them up to date (ssh files are missing from servers etc). Is it OK to update only the ports collection without the rest of the 'world'? Also, how do you do it properly? I think I've stuffed up my ports collection by using CVSUP, as the 5 or so programs I've tried making since all fail. My cvsupfile (/src/cvsup/cvs-cvsupfile) looks like this: *default release=cvs *default host=cvsup.au.freebsd.org *default base=/src/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default delete *default use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all and I ran the following command: cvsup -g -L2 /src/cvsup/cvs-cvsupfile which cause it to be busy for a while downloading a fair whack of stuff. But it's put all the guff straight into the /usr/ports heirarchy, is this what's supposed to happen? Or should I have gotten cvsup to bring the stuff down into /src/cvsup/something instead and then checked out what I wanted? I'm a bit lost here as to what you're actually supposed to do with cvsup. Please include jesse@va.com.au in your replies cheers jesse -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au Email: jesse (at) va.com.au - http://virtual.artists To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message