Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 04:54:34 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga <roelof@eboa.com> To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz Cc: cvsup-bugs@polstra.com, roelof@eboa.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup: a newbie's tale. Message-ID: <36FDA7FA.FB2B3F0F@eboa.com>
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Dan Langille wrote: > > Please have a read of http://www.freebsddiary.com/freebsd/current.htm and > give me your feedback. Tell us if you think that's enough for a newbie to > get cvsup running. I'm ba-a-ack <g>. Wiped the disk and began anew. <<I changed the base directory where the status files will be maintained. Don't forget to create this directory. *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup>> You might want to explain that what it does is create a /sup subdir in which it stores checkout information per release. As well as that the only reason to change it from /usr to /usr/loc... is, well, ... what exactly? Surely not tradition coz that would be /usr/sup <g>. <<I'm behind a firewall, so I used the following command to start my update (you need to do this as root). cvsup -P - stable-supfile>> That reminds me. I'm behind a firewall, too! Hm. This time I went the /etc/make.conf - talk about an undocumented feature! - route. Which of course does not mention the firewall bit. Ah well. Maybe that is why it deleted nearly all of my ports collection. Can't imagine this not being a FAQ, but it isn't. Also, why nada about the -g -L2 options? They get mentioned all over the place so why don't you? But now on to the serious stuff. Having checked both FAQ, Diary & Manual I used the following: /etc/make.conf: SUP_UPDATE= yes SUP= /usr/local/bin/cvsup SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2 -z SUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/forseti SUPFILE1= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/secure-forseti /usr/share/examples/cvsup/forseti: *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_3 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all /usr/share/examples/cvsup/secure-forseti: *default host=cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_3 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-crypto src-eBones src-secure went to /usr/src and gave 'make update' only to see it starting deleting my bleedin' ports collection! cvs-all and the crypto stuff went fine. No prolem. But the ports... all wiped clear. Sample output: Delete ports/x11-wm/xfce/pkg/COMMENT Delete ports/x11-wm/xfce/pkg/DESCR Delete ports/x11-wm/xfce/pkg/PLIST Shutting down connection to server Finished successfully So why did the ports-all update fail? I'm currently re-installing the ports collection, but will have to CVSup again for apache will not compile. Or rather, since it didn't exactly fail, why did it successfully wipe my ports collection instead of updating it? Another question is is it possible to change default hosts in the midst of an update script? I now got two script files and it would be nice to combine them. Like, say: /usr/share/examples/cvsup/forseti: *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_3 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all *default host=cvsup.internat.FreeBSD.org src-crypto src-eBones src-secure It sounds contradictory to 'default' but will it work? Roelof PS 3.1-RELEASE GENERIC PPS ran it again with -P - but with the same result. -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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