Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:33:21 -0700 (PDT) From: manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing/upgrading ports collection Message-ID: <20020816153321.77761.qmail@web11607.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200208161508.g7GF8Ofo017695@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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--- David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote: > >Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:02:38 -0700 (PDT) > >From: manny rosa <manny_robot_freak@yahoo.com> > > >I'm having difficulty upgrading my ports collection > >via cvsup. It used to work with Release 4.5, but > now > >all I get is a bunch of files with an ",v" > extention > >added. I deleted the ports dir to try to start from > >scratch. I tried cvsup again to reinstall the ports > >collection but now /usr/ports has nothing. I tried > to > >use sysinstall but my cdrom no longer works > although > >it shows up in dmesg. Any ideas? > > The ",v" files would appear to be intended to be > denizens of a CVS > repository, rather than a "working directory". > > Are you intending to use CVSup to update a set of > sources & ports > directly, or to update a CVS repository? If the > latter, you need to do > a "cvs checkout" to create the working directory, > and "cvs update" to > update it (or some functionally equivalent > operations). Ok, I just got it. I had "tag=.RELENG_4" or something like that in my supfile. I changed it to "tag=." and the ports collection installed (sources installed/updated). Sorry, but I though I had tried that earlier and it didn't work. Thanks for the help though! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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