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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:21:49 -0600
From:      Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To:        Wim Livens <wim@livens.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvsup ports: Error: your port uses an old layout.
Message-ID:  <20010115192149.A30698@northernbrewer.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010115101340.A75203@gateway.livens.net>; from wim@livens.net on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 10:13:40AM %2B0000
References:  <20010115101340.A75203@gateway.livens.net>

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Wim Livens (wim@livens.net) wrote:

> I want to keep ports up to date:
> 
> FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE
> installed ports distribution
> 
> (at this point, building ports work)
> 
> supfile:
> 
> 	*default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
> 	*default base=/usr
> 	*default prefix=/usr
> 	*default release=cvs tag=.
> 	*default delete use-rel-suffix
> 	*default compress
> 	ports-base
> 	ports-games
> 
> # cvsup supfile
> (seems to work)
> 
> /usr/ports/games/xbomber# make  # (or any other port, even none games) 
> Error: your port uses an old layout.  Please update it to match this bsd.port.mk.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> What am I doing wrong here ?

I did this to solve the problem: 
# rm -R /usr/ports
# cvsup ports-supfile

There may be a way to modify the ports-supfile to delete the problematic
files and completely synchronize the trees, but if bandwidth isn't a
problem, the above solution will work.

-- 
Christopher Farley
Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105
www.northernbrewer.com


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