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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)


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