From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 3 22:55:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02078 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:55:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02069 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:55:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul9.u.washington.edu (root@saul9.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.7]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id WAA44384 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:54:52 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul9.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id WAA00002 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:54:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:54:33 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Refuse Files and Cvsup Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here is the question: How can get an absolutely up to date list of all ports without cvsupping all of the ports? Here is why I ask: I have been working on a method to maintain a ports collection that has _only_ certain software in it. To do this, I have generated a refuse file from '/usr/ports/INDEX' which I fetch from pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/INDEX. I then use 'sed' and some shell scripting to delete the desired software directories out of the refuse file so that they will be fetched (not refused) and kept up to date. There is one problem. '/usr/ports/INDEX' is not as up to date as the ports collection. The result is that I get a refuse file that doesn't refuse everything I want it to. I found this out when cvsup started checking out files when all the files should have been refused. The big idea here is that I do not want to download all of the ports. I only want a few. The only problem I am having is getting a current INDEX. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message