Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 16:23:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Refuse Files and Cvsup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091622370.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811032101290.1828-100000@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > Here is the question: > > How can get an absolutely up to date list of all ports without cvsupping > all of the ports? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/INDEX should be the most current ... > I have been working on a method to maintain a ports collection that has > _only_ certain software in it. To do this, I have generated a refuse file > from '/usr/ports/INDEX' which I fetch from > pub/FreeBSD/ports-current/INDEX. > > I then use 'sed' and some shell scripting to delete the desired software > directories out of the refuse file so that they will be fetched (not > refused) and kept up to date. > > There is one problem. '/usr/ports/INDEX' is not as up to date as the ports > collection. The result is that I get a refuse file that doesn't refuse > everything I want it to. I found this out when cvsup started checking out > files when all the files should have been refused. It's doing what you asked -- refuse to update INDEX -- so it'll always be stale. Perhaps you want to refuse everything else instead? > The big idea here is that I do not want to download all of the ports. I > only want a few. The only problem I am having is getting a current INDEX. Then don't refuse it. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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