From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 12:37:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502A516A4CE for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:37:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.panix.com (mail1.panix.com [166.84.1.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 725AA43D3F for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:37:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stanb@panix.com) Received: from panix.com (brillig.panix.com [166.84.1.76]) by mail1.panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C6F48996 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:37:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01010374pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.176.69]) by panix.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7529B2AA4C for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:37:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1AoTlc-00066t-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:37:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:37:00 -0500 From: stan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040204203700.GB22819@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <00be01c3eb35$8b4a6b10$7764a8c0@ITDept> <200402040848.06080.kstewart@owt.com> <20040204172617.GB16928@teddy.fas.com> <200402040945.11019.kstewart@owt.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200402040945.11019.kstewart@owt.com> X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.23 X-Uptime: 15:15:49 up 31 days, 2:19, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.03, 0.01 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: Stan Brown Subject: Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:37:07 -0000 On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:45:11AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:26 am, stan wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:48:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 07:42 am, Randy Grafton wrote: > > > > You can use the refuse file to omit branches. I've attached my > > > > cvsupfile and my refuse file to give you an idea as to how this > > > > works. I placed my cvsupfile in /usr/local/etc and the refuse > > > > file goes in /user/local/etc/sup. I then call cvsup -g -L 2 > > > > /usr/local/etc/cvsupfile. The directory locations are based on > > > > the settings within the cvsupfile. > > > > > > The problem is that when you add this refuses, you can no longer > > > use portupgrade because building INDEX will most likely fail and > > > the resulting INDEX.db will be close to useless. > > > > ARGH! So I have to use up (albiet not a huge amount) of disk space > > holding these unwanted ports, just to allow portupgrade (which I > > can't live wihtout) to work? I do a portdb -Uu after every cvsup run > > if that maters. > > How many MBs are you going to save versus how much trouble you are going > to create. The time and money to get around the problem is your choice. > I think refusing a large number of ports is comparable to not building > sendmail and then finding out that you aren't getting output from your > cron jobs. Well, on machines with 2G drives, every byt counts :-) -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin