From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jul 11 21:10:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (fw-line-116.fwi.com [209.84.172.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 468BB15259 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 21:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us) Received: (from croyle@localhost) by gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA83036; Sun, 11 Jul 1999 23:07:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from croyle) To: lomion@anais-nin.org Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/12601: using cvsup to update only ports removes all makefiles in /usr/ports directories References: <19990712033716.064DC14CFC@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Don Croyle Date: 11 Jul 1999 23:07:40 -0500 Organization: Minimal at best In-Reply-To: lomion@anais-nin.org's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 1999 20:37:16 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <86pv1y7boz.fsf@emerson.gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org lomion@anais-nin.org writes: > >Description: > When using cvsup to update just the ports, the makefiles present in > the /usr/ports tree are all deleted. > The only way to restore them is to reinstall the distribution. > This happens on the following cvsup server i have tested: > cvsup1.freebsd.org, cvsup2.freebsd.org, cvsup5.freebsd.org This almost certainly happens because your default tag isn't '.' and it's being carried over to the ports. Try putting tag=. after ports-all (and doc-all, if you cvsup it). -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message