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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:01:42 +0000
From:      Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org>
To:        jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using CVSUP to update the Ports collection...
Message-ID:  <19991218150141.A323@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <v04205505b481469d122f@[1.1.1.3]>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912180627090.12109-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> <v04205505b481469d122f@[1.1.1.3]>

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On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 01:22:41AM +1100, jesse reynolds wrote:
> At 6:31 AM -0800 18/12/1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> >oy! if you want a copy of the cvs repo, then you want to set
> >'base=/home/ncvs' and use 'cvs -d /home/ncvs' as your cvs command.
> 
> No, I don't want the whole thing, just the ports.
> 
> >however it's much easier to just get a copy of the files you need,
> >add the line:
> >
> >*default tag=.
> >
> >and leave it at /usr to just get the most recent files.
> 
> Okay, excellent. So, I should change my cvs-cvsupfile to read:
> 
> *default release=cvs
> *default host=cvsup.au.freebsd.org
> *default base=/src/cvsup
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default delete
> *default use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> *default tag=.
> ports-all
> 

Change base to /usr as well.

Take a look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile for more info.

HTH

> 
> does the 'tag=.' tell it to just update files that are already found locally?
> 
> Is it possible that running cvsup as I did without the tag=. could 
> have stuffed up my ports collection? It's just that I tried 5 
> different programs and they all failed... here's the output of `cd 
> /usr/ports/misc/less ; make install`...
> 
> su-2.03# make install
> ===>  Patching for less-340
> ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for less-340
> Ignoring previously applied (or reversed) patch.
> 1 out of 1 hunks ignored--saving rejects to Makefile.in.rej
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop.
> 
> su-2.03# more ./work/less-340/Makefile.in.rej
> ***************
> *** 15,21 ****
>    LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
>    O=o
>  
> - LIBS = @LIBS@
>  
>    prefix = @prefix@
>    exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
> --- 15,21 ----
>    LDFLAGS = @LDFLAGS@
>    O=o
>  
> + LIBS = -ltermcap
>  
>    prefix = @prefix@
>    exec_prefix = @exec_prefix@
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Jesse
> 
> 
> --
>        Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au
>              Email: jesse (at) va.com.au        - http://virtual.artists
> 
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