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From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com>
To: steve lasiter <slas7713@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:10:56 -0800
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Subject: Re: upgrade then no ports
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On Monday 19 December 2005 14:04, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> On Monday 19 December 2005 14:00, steve lasiter wrote:
> > --- "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Yes, I have
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4
>
> Change it to *default release=cvs tag=.
> see man cvsup (note the ".")
>
> -Mike

Here is a better reference, the man page won't help you

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

Warning: Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags are 
valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an incorrect or 
misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do not want 
deleted. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections.