Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:15:59 +0000 From: Pollywog <lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with supfile Message-ID: <200708182016.00017.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <46C74CC9.5000401@otenet.gr> References: <200708181936.45025.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> <46C74CC9.5000401@otenet.gr>
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On Saturday 18 August 2007 19:47:21 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Pollywog wrote: > > Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working. I think the > > problem is the tag but I am unsure why: > > > > *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/var/db > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > > > # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, > > try # commenting out the following line. (Normally, today's CPUs are > > fast enough # that you want to run compression.) > > *default compress > > > > # This collection retrieves the www/ tree of the FreeBSD repository > > #www > > ports-all > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Since this is obviously a ports-supfile, are you sure you want to cvsup > the RELENG_6_2 ports; > These refer to the ports tree at the exact point when 6.2 was released. > You already have them, you installed that ports tree from your CDROM > during installation. > Instead, you probably need a line like: > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > to get the latest available ports. Thanks, that has to be it, because on my laptop, I have it as above and it works. The problem is that when I updated src-ports with a similar supfile, I ended up with FreeBSD 7 on the laptop.
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