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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:31:52 +0200 (CEST)
From:      James Tapping <james@fr.clara.net>
To:        Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVSup questions.
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104111523570.22511-100000@munster.noc.fr.clara.net>
In-Reply-To: <006601c0c286$f4cdad20$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org>

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Firstly, Thanks very much for your help.

I rather daftly constructed my supfile from
the stable-supfile :-) Could you possible send me yours?

> If your ports-collection update was succesfull, you will
> also notice that in the latest ports-collection, the proftpd port is  
> of version 1.2.2rc1.

I'm not there yet but, will I have to do a make deinstall && make
reinstall for the version to change?

> Copy over 'ports-supfile' from there, modify the *default host line to
> your nearest mirror and it should work fine. At least, it did for me  
> yesterday. :)

I am in the middle of doing it :-)

Cheers

On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Tapping" <james@fr.clara.net>
> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 1:27 PM
> Subject: CVSup questions.
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a few problems understanging what CVSup actually does for me
> > despite reading the handbook and everything else I could find :-)
> >
> > I am using a FreeBSD 4.2 release and I have managed to compile a
> > kernel.
> >
> > I have used the following supfile.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Done: cvsup supfile
> >
> > This downloaded loaded loads of files, and deleted a lot more in
> > /usr/ports.
> >
> > Leaving me with no ports. I had to do /stand/sysinstall to get them
> > back.
> >
> > Another thing that I don't get is that, for example with proftp, the
> > current version seems to be the 1.2.2, but I have the 1.2.0.
> >
> > [...]
> 
> It left you with no ports? That's strange, indeed, especially since
> your supfile looks quite correct. But you might want to try this: You
> should have quite a few example supfiles in /usr/share/examples/cvsup.
> Copy over 'ports-supfile' from there, modify the *default host line to
> your nearest mirror and it should work fine. At least, it did for me
> yesterday. :) If your ports-collection update was succesfull, you will
> also notice that in the latest ports-collection, the proftpd port is
> of version 1.2.2rc1.
> 
> If you want to upgrade your whole source tree (in order to upgrade
> your FreeBSD to the latest STABLE or CURRENT version), use the
> stable-supfile (for the STABLE branch) or the standard-supfile (for
> the (experimental) CURRENT branch) which also can be found in
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup. Make sure to read /usr/src/UPDATING after
> you cvsup'd everything and before starting the actual upgrade - it
> contains some revision history/changes and (if you scroll down a bit)
> step-by-step instructions how to upgrade.
> 
> 
> Greetings and good luck,
> 
> Michael Nottebrock
> 
> 


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