Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 09:37:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: karl agee <kdagee@attglobal.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my ports got wiped out! Message-ID: <20020804092957.X92993-100000@dumpster.io.com> In-Reply-To: <200208040139.24530.kdagee@attglobal.net>
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, karl agee wrote: > So how did this happen??? > > enterprise# uname -a > FreeBSD enterprise.localhost 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 11 > 06:14:12 GMT 2002 > murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 > > > I just installed 4.6-release, with ports and all, installed cvsup, with a new > supfile (below) and ran it. > > It deleted all of my ports!!!! how did THAT happen??? > > (I thought you were supposed to put **delete** in the default-release line so > it could get rid of the crud it didnt need....) > > --karl > > *default host=cvsup8.Freebsd.org > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs > *default tag=RELENG_4 The above deleted all your ports because there are no RELENG_4 ports. Ports are not identified with any releases. You must use . for the tag. (i.e. tag=.). /usr/share/examples/cvsup should contain a ports-supfile which will work with only a change of the host line. > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > #src-all > ports-all > #docs-all > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 600 E 53RD ST APT 119 AUSTIN TX 78751 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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