Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:48:28 +1100 From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: "Dan Peck" <peckdani@msu.edu>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to ignore some ports? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020311144456.01be1500@pop.ozemail.com.au> In-Reply-To: <004a01c1c8ae$c159d840$1c01a8c0@lc.ca.gov> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020311130104.037912d0@pop.ozemail.com.au> <20020310222257.B6712@peckdani-2.user.msu.edu> <003301c1c8ad$860e8340$1c01a8c0@lc.ca.gov>
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At 14:42 11/03/2002, Drew Tomlinson sent this up the stick: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> >To: "Dan Peck" <peckdani@msu.edu>; "Rob B" <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> >Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> >Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 7:33 PM >Subject: Re: How to ignore some ports? > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Dan Peck" <peckdani@msu.edu> > > To: "Rob B" <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> > > Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > > Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 7:22 PM > > Subject: Re: How to ignore some ports? > > > > > > > Check out the bottom of the ports-supfile that you're using. you > > > probably have ports-all line uncommented. Look below that, and you > > > should have all of the individual collections listed. Comment out >the > > > line that says porst-all, and then uncomment the port directorys >that > > > you wish to continue with. All better :) > > > > Or for even finer control, read the handbook and learn how to create a > > refuse file. > >OK, my bad. You are already using a refuse file. What do you mean by >"it doesn't work"? The refuse file won't delete files that already >exist but they shouldn't be updated. > >Drew > > > > > Drew > > > > > -Dan > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:12:15PM +1100, Rob B wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Running cvsup at the moment, I notice that I am getting a lot of > > ports that > > > > I don't need, such as the ../japanese, ../korean etc. I am using > > the > > > > supfile in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile so I would >assume > > that I > > > > would use the "refuse" file in the same directory, but this >doesn't > > work. > > > > > > > > Here is the contects of the refuse file: > > > > ><snip> > > > > > > > > Should I be deleting the diretories mentioned in the refuse file? > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > Rob My main problem is where the heck to put the refuse file. As I said, I had it in the same directory as the supfile but that didn't work, it kept updating the files and directories that were listed in the refuse file. I've since made a symlink to /usr/refuse, since "base" is defined in the supfile as /usr and I'm testing this option now. Rob -- Fleas on my catma! [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 426 of a collection of 1204 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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