Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:37:10 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> To: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSupd and now my src directory is gone Message-ID: <3A89A906.75DBEF42@urx.com> References: <m3u25y2ss9.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk>
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Wayne Pascoe wrote: > > Hi again all, > > Sorry to bug, but the migration from Linux to FreeBSD is taking longer > than I had planned. My main issue at the moment is with cvsup. > > I did a cvsup with the sample file referenced in the Handbook > (Advanced Topics, tracking stable). I changed the host line to > *default host=cvsup.uk.freebsd.org > > I also changed the release line to > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_2 > > I then did a cvsup STABLE-supfile (the name of the supfile that I > created). After finding my empty source tree, I also tried > cvsup -g -L 2 STABLE-supfile > > It ran for quite a while saying that it was deleting things. Then it > exited. Now the only 2 directories in my /usr/src directory are CVS > and contrib. > Everything else is gone! Yes, this is what happens when you don't use the proper tag fields. There is no RELENG_4_2 and cvsup cleaned up your /usr/src. The valid entries can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html. There are _no_substitutes_. kent > > Oh, in case it helps, > src-all is uncommented as the sample supfile suggests. > > I'm confused! I just want to track stable so that I can get OpenSSH > 2.3.0 installed to fix a security hole. > > Any help would be _MUCH_ appreciated! > > -- > - Wayne Pascoe > E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk > Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 > Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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