From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 6:22:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D1837B401 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CB043E77 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA19854; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 06:22:13 -0700 Message-ID: <3D53C204.9080305@owt.com> Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 06:22:12 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Moore Cc: bsd-questions Subject: Re: Question on CVSuping ports for first time on a system References: <200208092139.32856.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ian Moore wrote: > Hi, > I've got a query about CVSuping the ports collection for the first time on a > system. According to > /usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/examples.html you > should use *default tag= for the first CVSup > to create the ports checkouts file. > I used tag=2002.06.11.09.02.00 for 4.6-R, so my cvsup file looked like > *default tag=2002.06.11.09.02.00 > #*default tag=. > *default host=cvsup.au.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=/usr > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress > ports-all > > When I tried that, cvsup deleted all my ports. Obviously this is not right! > The example cvsup file in /usr/obj/examples and the Handbook don't mention > this at all, they just say use tag=. for the ports collection. > Using tag=. seems to work correctly. > > I'm just wondering, is that correct, or should I do something else the first > time? The ports don't follow a release. They follow current or "tag=.". If you want the ports for a date, you have to use the date option. There have also been a lot of fixes since 4.6 was released. Files available when 4.6 was released may no longer be available to download. 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