Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 01:10:54 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@goof.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SUP Message-ID: <199503080610.BAA01117@goof.com> In-Reply-To: <199503080606.WAA27366@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 7, 95 10:06:56 pm
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Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > going totally crazy, but I can't get a working supfile for my life! Could
> > someone help me out? What I want to do is have sup update the src tree each
> > night, excluding the ports sources. My system sources live in /usr/src:
> What values are you using for base= and prefix= in your supfile?
The standard ones...
> Did you look at the file:
> /usr/src/share/FAQ/extras/standard-supfile
yeah... as root, I got this:
bash# supscan -f standard-supfile
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for base
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for bin
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for etc
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for games
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for gnu
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for include
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for sys
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for lib
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for libexec
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for sbin
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for share
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for usrbin
supscan: Can't chdir to base directory release=current host=FreeBSD.ORG hostbase=/home base=/usr prefix=/usr/src delete old for usrsbin
> Also when running sup can it should be run as root, or it should be able
> to write to /usr/src [it needs to create /usr/src/sup/... for state
> information].
As above, I was running as root. Any ideas?
-matt
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