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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:33:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Installing/upgrading ports collection
To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>,
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--- David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:
> >Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:02:38 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com>
> 
> >I'm having difficulty upgrading my ports collection
> >via cvsup. It used to work with Release 4.5, but
> now
> >all I get is a bunch of files with an ",v"
> extention
> >added. I deleted the ports dir to try to start from
> >scratch. I tried cvsup again to reinstall the ports
> >collection but now /usr/ports has nothing. I tried
> to
> >use sysinstall but my cdrom no longer works
> although
> >it shows up in dmesg. Any ideas?
> 
> The ",v" files would appear to be intended to be
> denizens of a CVS
> repository, rather than a "working directory".
> 
> Are you intending to use CVSup to update a set of
> sources & ports
> directly, or to update a CVS repository?  If the
> latter, you need to do
> a "cvs checkout" to create the working directory,
> and "cvs update" to
> update it (or some functionally equivalent
> operations).

Ok, I just got it. I had "tag=.RELENG_4" or something
like that in my supfile. I changed it to "tag=." and
the ports collection installed (sources
installed/updated). Sorry, but I though I had tried
that earlier and it didn't work. Thanks for the help though!

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