From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 7:46:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from earth.wnm.net (earth.wnm.net [208.246.240.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B4237B6CA for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 07:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@wnm.net) Received: from localhost (alex@localhost) by earth.wnm.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA21485; Sun, 14 May 2000 09:47:23 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 09:47:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Alex Charalabidis To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup's deleting ports... In-Reply-To: <8022405116.20000514163925@buz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 Author, The Book of IRC http://www.bookofirc.com/ ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message