From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 6 18:38:14 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 D4B2C37B400; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75C1F43E6A; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:38:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.pantherdragon.org (evrtwa1-ar10-4-61-252-210.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.61.252.210]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48821FDDC; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:38:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7801BAB04; Tue, 6 Aug 2002 18:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D507A00.C2A97BE1@pantherdragon.org> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 18:38:08 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Desmond Lee Cc: freebsd-questions , scott@bsdprophet.org, kstewart@owt.com, grog@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: some questions about upgrade and /etc/ files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Desmond Lee wrote: > The following i put in file called etc-supfile in the dir: > /usr/share/example/cvsup/ > > *default host=cvsup10.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/home/dmp/cvs > *default prefix=/home/dmp/cvs/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > src-etc > src-crypto > > But, for some reason it didn't work and i got a message saying > "nonexistent base dir "/home/dmp/cvs" for collection "src-etc" Please read the cvsup man page, you need to customize the supfile before you can use it. > So, i have to do a comparison by hand for all the files in the /etc/ dir. Not all of them, just the ones you've modified. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message