Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 14:45:52 -0800 (PST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using CVSUP to update the Ports collection... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912181442560.12109-100000@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <v04205505b481469d122f@[1.1.1.3]>
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On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, 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. ok, then you want the 'tag' line. > > >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 > > > does the 'tag=.' tell it to just update files that are already found locally? no it will pull the entire ports collection. > 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`... [snip] Yes it's possible. :( I'm not sure though, the errors you report are _weird_, if you have the bandwidth available I would just clear out the ports tree (perhaps saving /usr/ports/distifiles where the downloaded source tgz's are stored) and then cvsup again. If you have the cdroms, then unpacking the ports tarfile and cvsup'ing on top of that may be faster. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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