From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 27 13: 0:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2280C37B4E5 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9RK0ZD07837; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:00:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:00:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Andreas Ntaflos Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup the ports? Message-ID: <20001027130035.H28123@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39F9D9FC.A52696BE@gmx.net> <20001027124433.G28123@fw.wintelcom.net> <39F9DBBC.11A47B2@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39F9DBBC.11A47B2@gmx.net>; from ntaflos.andreas@gmx.net on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:47:08PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Andreas Ntaflos [001027 12:47] wrote: > oh damn, i forgot to mention that > of course i have *default tag=RELENG_4, but i didnt remeber the complete > supfile ;) > > sorry for that > repeat: i have the *default tag=RELENG_4 entry. > > sorry for that newbie-like error, but i am currnetly under windows and > couldnt check out the supfile. Well that's your problem, the docs warn you that ports has no tags and specifying one that doesn't exist will hose you. Change the releng_4 into '.' for ports, but make sure to keep it for source: src-all tag=RELENG_4 ports-add tag=. > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > * Andreas Ntaflos [001027 12:40] wrote: > > > hi, this may sound a bit weird but i seem to have a problem updating my > > > ports via cvsup. > > > the supfile contains nothing unusal: > > > > > > *default host=cvsup.at.freebsd.org > > > *default base=/usr > > > *default prefix=/usr > > > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > > > ports-all > > > > > > this way it is intended to get the new ports available, hm? > > > but whichever server i try (cvsup.freebsd.org, cvsup.at.freebsd.org, > > > cvsup.de.freebsd.org...), it doesnt do anything but deleting the > > > contents of the various sub-dirs in /usr/ports, except the README.htmls > > > > > > this starts to become problem, as there is a new portsrtee layout > > > according to UPDATING (getting src-all works fine btw) and the ports on > > > 4.0 release are getting old... > > > > > > so does anyone know what is going on there? or what i may have done > > > wrong? > > > > Where is your 'tag=.' entry? > > > > -- > > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message