From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 10:45:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7080B156C7 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:45:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from main.wgaf.net ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <19991229184253.TZJL7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@main.wgaf.net> for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:42:53 -0800 Received: from antipode by main.wgaf.net with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 123O5l-0001Jp-00; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 13:45:01 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup ports References: <386A53A2.286AE8F@nwlink.com> X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 29 Dec 1999 13:45:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: R Joseph Wright's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:32:02 -0800" Message-ID: <87vh5hlh76.fsf@main.wgaf.net> Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG R Joseph Wright 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