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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 07:28:16 -0800
From: Roop Nanuwa <roop@hqst.com>
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Subject: Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?
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stan wrote:

>I want to omit some of the ports from my cvsup run. I've always used the
>ports-all tag, but these days there a a good many non English language ports
>that only use space on my disks.
>
>I would like to limit the collections. Probably by excluding certain ports
>subtags, rather than explicitly including the ones I want, as I think this
>would be more robust relative to future additions.
>  
>
>Where can I find a list? And what's the syntax of the exclude statement?
>
>  
>
RTFM @ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
and
RTFM @ 
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=cvsup&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+5.2-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html
(the part about the 'refuse' file)

--roop