Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 01:48:18 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: bsd@xtremedev.com Cc: karl agee <kdagee@attglobal.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my ports got wiped out! Message-ID: <3D4CEA52.8040108@owt.com> References: <20020804024134.K6988-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
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bsd@xtremedev.com wrote: >>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 >>*default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress >> >>#src-all >>ports-all >>#docs-all >> >> > > >>From http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html: > > Warning: Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags > are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an > incorrect or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do > not want deleted. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections. > > > Ports don't have branches. So RELENG_4 means nothing to it. You either > have the latest ports, or you don't. > The same thing applies to docs. You only have "tag=.". Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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