From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 31 13:50:32 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 0995016A4D6 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:50:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35F3043D58 for ; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:50:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0VDoUYs012304 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:50:30 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j0VDoUFx012302; Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:50:30 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:50:29 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: saravanan ganapathy Message-ID: <20050131135029.GF8619@alzatex.com> References: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C 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 13:50:32 -0000 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