From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 13 15:50:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2D737B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id eADNoFQ14447; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:50:15 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:50:15 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: G D McKee Cc: Stable FreeBSD Subject: Re: CVSup Source Code Message-ID: <20001113155014.Q11449@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <00cf01c04dca$fe85fba0$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <00cf01c04dca$fe85fba0$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local>; from freebsd-stable@gdmckee.com on Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:39:41PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * G D McKee [001113 15:39] wrote: > Hi > > When I supp'ed the source code for the current release of FreeBSD the program deleted the content of all the file in the ports tree and left the dir structure intact. Has any one else had this problem. > > I do realise it is not entirely relevant to this email feed, but you must all have used one of three methods to patch your source tree. You need to: 1) wrap lines at 70 characters 2) specify the tag '.' for ports like so: ports-all tag=. This is documented somewhere that I can't recall offhand. -- -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-stable" in the body of the message