Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:50:29 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> To: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port update problem - deleted all the ports Message-ID: <20050131135029.GF8619@alzatex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:31:31AM -0800, 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 There is no tag called RELENG_5_3 in the ports try so it will cause everything to be deleted. RELENG_5_3 only applies to the /usr/src tree. Just use . for a tag for ports which gets the latest ones. RELENG_5_3_RELEASE might work to retrieve the exact set of ports that shipped with the cds, but I'd recommend to just get the latest with all the security patches. > ... > ... > ... > 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? > > Sarav > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C
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