Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:12:13 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: rene@xs4all.nl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup not getting any files Message-ID: <20010123121212.A84975@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <20010123123650.B17155@xs4all.nl>; from rene@xs4all.nl on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:36:50PM %2B0100 References: <20010123123650.B17155@xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:36:50PM +0100, rene@xs4all.nl wrote: > Hi. I've done the following: > > ran a 3.4-stable system satisfactorilly, wanted to switch to 4.x > > various attempts to upgrade 4.x failed using CVS and make world > > re-installed using ISO 4.1 image from ftp.freebsd.org by booting from CD > and leaving the filesystem intact but 're-installing' the system. > > installed additional packages using /stand/sysinstall > > and all that worked; > > 12# uname -a > FreeBSD messenger 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 17 18:12:40 > CET 2000 > root@messenger:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > Altough the system provides me with samba and inet services, I then wanted > to proceed to further upgrade my system to the STABLE branch, because I still > couldn't get IPFilter installed. > > using the following cvsup as such > > cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/secure-stable-supfile > > where /etc/secure-stable-supfile reads: > > # Defaults that apply to all the collections > *default host=cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=FreeBSD-STABLE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Try RELENG_4 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > > src-all > > (without the tabs, btw ;) > this outputs: > > Parsing supfile "secure-stable-supfile" > Looking up address of cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org > Connecting to cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org > Connected to cvsup.nl.FreeBSD.org > Server software version: REL_16_1 > Negotiating file attribute support > Exchanging collection information > Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection > Running > Updating collection src-all/cvs > --> for a long time nothing happens <-- > Shutting down connection to server > Finished successfully > > but there are NO new files in /usr/src!!! > > Changing the server to cvsup.FreeBSD.org didn't make > ANY difference, unfortunately. > > To tell you the truth, I'm getting fairly fed up with it all. > All I wanted was to migrate to 4.x in order to use ipFilter easilly, > and it's turned out to be quite a nightmare for me; after 4 weeks still no Try using RELENG_4 as the tag, not FreeBSD-STABLE, then you'll get all the new files. -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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