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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 09:47:22 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net>
To:        Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl-fbquestions@buz.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CVSup's deleting ports...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.4.05.10005140941300.13139-100000@earth.wnm.net>
In-Reply-To: <8022405116.20000514163925@buz.ch>

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On Sun, 14 May 2000, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:

> Hello,
> When I start a cvsup today to get my ports uptodate, something strange
> happened:
> CVSup began to delete VERY many port directories. In fact, it just
> kept scrolling through
> [...]
>  Delete ports/deskutils/xrolo/patches/patch-ae
>  Delete ports/deskutils/xrolo/patches/patch-af
>  Delete ports/deskutils/xrolo/pkg/COMMENT
>  Delete ports/deskutils/xrolo/pkg/DESCR
>  Delete ports/deskutils/xrolo/pkg/PLIST
> [..]
> 
> messages. Is there something wrong  with my config (last week, it was
> working!!)? Here's my cvsupfile as generated by the cvsupit package:
> 
> *default  host=cvsup.de.freebsd.org
> *default  base=/usr
> *default  prefix=/usr
> *default  release=cvs
> *default  tag=RELENG_4
> *default  delete use-rel-suffix
> 
> ports-all

ports-all tag=.

Some of the sample cvsup config files in /usr/share/examples/cvsup have a
warning about this, others don't. If you leave out the tag=., this is what
will happen.

-ac

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