From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 10 20:17:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA23783 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:17:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA23773 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:17:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA07249; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:16:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199711110416.UAA07249@austin.polstra.com> To: bemfica@militzer.me.tuns.ca Subject: Re: CVSup cannot parse stable-supfile? In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 20:16:34 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , Antonio Bemfica wrote: > When I try to use the example file available at ftp.freebsd.org, CVSup > gives me an error: > > mechv:/usr/sup.sh# cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile > Parsing supfile "/usr/sup.sh/stable-supfile" > Release not specified for collection "*default" > > I upgraded to the latest CVSup, but that didn't solve it. I do have a > working supfile, but still would like to know the proper syntax. Sorry I didn't answer sooner. I just came home from holiday. I am almost certain that you still have an old version of CVSup in your $PATH. Type "cvsup -v" and see what it says. If you have the current version, it will say "Software version: 15.2". I bet it won't say that. ;-) Use "which cvsup" to find the old version, and get rid of it. John