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From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
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Cc: steve lasiter <slas7713@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: upgrade then no ports
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On Monday 19 December 2005 13:53, steve lasiter wrote:
> I have Freebsd 5.4 on all my servers. It had been a
> while since the initial load so I decided to upgrade
> all source code via cvsup and then ran make
> buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel.
>
> After all was said and done everything booted fine and
> all was working well. When I went to install a new
> port I noticed that all my ports were gone. All that
> is in my /usr/ports/ directory are the directories
> distfiles, and dns and a INDEX-5 file. I ran my
> ports-supfile for all-ports and it appeared to be
> installing but when it's done the /usr/ports/
> directory is unchanged. When I went to install through
> sysinstall evey ftp site gives me this:
>
> Warning: Can't find the '5.4-RELEASE-p8' distribution
> on this FTP server.
>
> I still consider myself a Freebsd newbie and feel I've
> probably  missed something simple but I have had no
> luck searching the net or bsd site.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Steve L

In your ports-sup file do you have this line?

*default tag=.

-Mike