From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 26 11:18:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4278D37B718 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (dfrazier@poomba.magpage.com [216.155.24.136]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2QJIOr32275; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:18:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3ABF9600.2075D96@magpage.com> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:18:24 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steven D. Smith" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports-all References: <200103261857.NAA26567@gate1.health.state.ny.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you need to have a ports-supfile that contains the following lines: *default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix #*default compress ## Ports Collection. ports-all (note: I have default compress commented out since this box is on a T1) save those lines in a file named ports-supfile and then run... cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile ...and that should do it. remember to supply the absolute path to ports-supfile if it's not in your cwd... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. "Steven D. Smith" wrote: > > What is the correct way to using CVS to rebuild the 'ports collection'? > I blew away my ports directory... but running the cvs script won't rebuild it... > > ((((((HELP)))))) > > Steven > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message