Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:15:28 -0800 From: Jerry Preeper <preeper@cts.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: cvsup question re ports and 3.3R Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000328181528.008d3e80@crash.cts.com>
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I think I may have hosed my ports collection... but I'm not sure... I'm running 3.3-Release (according to uname) and I ran cvsup with this command /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 /usr/sup/ports-supfile with the following info in ports-supfile. *default host=cvsup7.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix umask=002 ports-all Everything seemed to run fine and I didn't get any errors. I'm looking in particular to upgrade apache and php, but really just need to recompile apache to user mod_usertracking. Now when I go to /usr/ports/www/apache13-php3 and type make fetch or even just make, I get the following error message: ===> apache+php-1.3.12+3.0.15 : Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the instructions. I went to the ports page and got a little confused. I see the upgrade packages, but does that upgrade FreeBSD or just the related files necessary for using the newer versions of the ports. Basically, I'm really new at this and a little over my head and not wanting to destroy a production machine. From the description, it appears it will upgrade 3.3R to -stable and it looks like there is only one file in the 3.3 or 3.4 to 3-stable upgrade kit which is /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 Since I'm a chicken right now... I'd rather just use the older ports for now until I learn more. My question is this: Instead of doing the system upgrade on a live machine with the upgrade package, should I wipe out the ports directory, restore them by mounting one of my backup hard drives and then rerun cvsup changing from tag=. to tag=RELENG_3_3_0_RELEASE or can I just rerun cvsup making the above change, sort of backdating the ports. Any help or other tips would be greatly appreciated. Jerry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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