From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 13:41:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3302216A4CF for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:41:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8461943D53 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:41:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marko@freebsd.org) Received: from [80.229.231.20] (helo=postbag.localdomain) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1Cvc5m-0009SY-Cr; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:59:50 +0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (red-shift [192.168.1.3]) by postbag.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id E23ED62; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:45:07 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <41FE3545.6010005@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:40:21 +0000 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 7.0 (Windows/20050113) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: saravanan ganapathy References: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0504-4, 28/01/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port update problem - deleted all the ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:41:03 -0000 saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Hai , > > I am using 5.3 release and included tag=RELENG_5_3 to > my ports-supfile and when I tried to update ports > using " cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile", it deleted > almost all the ports and finally it says > ... > ... > ... > Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/Makefile > Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/distinfo Delete > ports/x11-wm/yawm/pkg-descr > Shutting down connection to server > Finished successfully > > > My ports-supfile looks as > > *default host=cvsup10.us.freebsd.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > ports-all > > > What is the problem? > The ports tree doesn't have tags so you should edit the above to *default release=cvs tag=. Note the '.'!! Also are you sure that you want your ports tree in /var/db? /usr would be more usual. *default base=/usr HTH Regards, Mark --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0504-4, 28/01/2005 Tested on: 31/01/2005 13:40:22 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com