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Subject: Re: Seeking advice on 'ports-supfile'
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Hi Adam,

Tks for your advice.

> > FreeBSD-5.2
> > 
> > I'm seeking for advice on 'ports-supfile' to run
> > 
> > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/
> > ports-supfile
> > 
> > the second time as at the first time there were
> some
> > problems
> 
> I don't quite use it this way.
> 
> I use the three files located at
> http://www.bugman.cx/cvsup/ and I always
> put them in my /etc directory (just for easy
> access).

Noted

> make.conf is empty during a standard FreeBSD
> installation, but by putting
> (some) of these options in it, you'll be able to
> update the ports by cd-ing
> to /usr/ports and typing in 'make update'.
> 
> It's way better this way.

cat /etc/make.conf
MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?=    \
       
ftp://ftp2.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?=  ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}
MASTER_SORT_REGEX?=     ^file:
^ftp://ftp\.FreeBSD\.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/
://[^/]*\.au/ ://[^/]*\.au\.
SUP_UPDATE=yes
SUP=/usr/local/bin/cvsup
SUPFLAGS=-g -L 2 -r 0
SUPHOST=mirror.internode.on.net
SUPFILE=/etc/release-supfile
PORTSSUPFILE=/etc/ports-supfile
WITHOUT_GUI=true
WITHOUT_X11=true
WITHOUT_CUPS=true

1)
Shall I make change to following lines according to
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html

MASTER_SITE_BACKUP?=    \
       
ftp://ftp2.au.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/${DIST_SUBDIR}/
MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE?=  ${MASTER_SITE_BACKUP}
MASTER_SORT_REGEX?=     ^file:
^ftp://ftp\.FreeBSD\.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/
://[^/]*\.au/ ://[^/]*\.au\.

and

SUPHOST=mirror.internode.on.net

2)
Shall I make any change to;
/etc/ports-supfile
/etc/release-supfile

Kindly advice.  TIA

B.R.
Stephen



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