Date: 29 Dec 1999 13:45:01 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup ports Message-ID: <87vh5hlh76.fsf@main.wgaf.net> In-Reply-To: R Joseph Wright's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:32:02 -0800" References: <386A53A2.286AE8F@nwlink.com>
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R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> writes: > I tried to use cvsup to update my ports. Here is my cvsupfile: > > *default host=cvsup5.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_3 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > ports-all > > I ran cvsup cvsupfile > It connected fine. Then it proceeded to delete all my makefiles and > other useful information from every port directory. > A question: what does '*default release=cvs' mean (I don't understand > what I'm doing really, I modified my cvsupfile from an example in The > Complete FreeBSD)? You can't specify tag=RELENG_3 for ports, but you do via the default line. Try using ports-all tag=. This is discussed in the handbook. For more info see: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP Cheers, -- Arcady Genkin http://wgaf.dyndns.org "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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