Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:33:31 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports on FreeBSD 4 Message-ID: <20070516073331.GA96817@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.0.82.0705160000080.7181@pez2> References: <alpine.DEB.0.82.0705160000080.7181@pez2>
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On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:06:24AM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > I realize the ports on RELENG_4 have been EOL'd, but I'm stuck on 4 for > one system due to instability currently with the RELENG_6 box that will > take its place. I'd like to be able to get a ports tree that represents > the state of things just before support for 4.x was dropped. I thought I > read that the tag for that was RELENG_4_EOL. I tried using that by going > into /etc/make.conf and changing > > PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > > to > > PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile > > and in /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile, a copy of > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile, I changed > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > to > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_EOL > > I did a "make update" in /usr/ports and it started to remove every file > under /usr/ports. Yech. I had to go back to using > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and do a make update from > /usr/src to get a /usr/ports tree back, though now of course that > /usr/ports tree doesn't work for 4.x (it expects the new rc.subr stuff > for example). > > I realize I'm treading on retired ground here... but any ideas? Yes, the tag you want to use is RELEASE_4_EOL, not RELENG_4_EOL. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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