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From: Zach Thompson <hideo@lastamericanempire.com>
To: Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch>
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Subject: Re: cvsup and ports-update
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* Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch> [2002-05-06 14:23]:
> I create the following supfiles:
> 
> *default tag=.
> *default host=cvsup2.de.freebsd.org
> *default prefix=/usr/ports
> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> ports-all
> 
> or
> 
> *default tag=.
> *default host=cvsup2.de.freebsd.org
> *default prefix=/usr/ports
> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> ports-x11
> 
> Now I start cvsup. I see my cvsup is loading down all the above stuff but after
>  cvsup there are no changes made in /usr/ports/ or in /usr/ports/x11. If I 
> change to *default prefix=/usr/home/my_username he creates the newest ports 
> directories correct with the newest stuff in it. What is going wrong?
> 

I believe "ports" is automatically appended to prefix. Do you perhaps
have a /usr/ports/ports directory? To get a directory structure like
/usr/ports/x11, /usr/ports/x11-wm, etc., you should have prefix=/usr


Zach Thompson

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