Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:40:21 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> To: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: port update problem - deleted all the ports Message-ID: <41FE3545.6010005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050131133131.32116.qmail@web51710.mail.yahoo.com>
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saravanan ganapathy wrote: > Hai , > > I am using 5.3 release and included tag=RELENG_5_3 to > my ports-supfile and when I tried to update ports > using " cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile", it deleted > almost all the ports and finally it says > ... > ... > ... > Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/Makefile > Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/distinfo Delete > ports/x11-wm/yawm/pkg-descr > Shutting down connection to server > Finished successfully > > > My ports-supfile looks as > > *default host=cvsup10.us.freebsd.org > *default base=/var/db > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > ports-all > > > What is the problem? > The ports tree doesn't have tags so you should edit the above to *default release=cvs tag=. Note the '.'!! Also are you sure that you want your ports tree in /var/db? /usr would be more usual. *default base=/usr HTH Regards, Mark --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0504-4, 28/01/2005 Tested on: 31/01/2005 13:40:22 avast! - copyright (c) 2000-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com
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