Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 22:13:24 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: mmead@goof.com (matthew c. mead) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SUP Message-ID: <199503080613.WAA27410@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199503080610.BAA01117@goof.com> from "matthew c. mead" at Mar 8, 95 01:10:54 am
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> > Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > going totally crazy, but I can't get a working supfile for my life! Could > > > someone help me out? What I want to do is have sup update the src tree each > > > night, excluding the ports sources. My system sources live in /usr/src: > > > What values are you using for base= and prefix= in your supfile? > > The standard ones... > > > Did you look at the file: > > /usr/src/share/FAQ/extras/standard-supfile > > yeah... as root, I got this: > bash# supscan -f standard-supfile Argh.... supscan is for the sup SERVER to build the sup list files. You should be doing something like: sup -v standard-supfile > > > Also when running sup can it should be run as root, or it should be able > > to write to /usr/src [it needs to create /usr/src/sup/... for state > > information]. > > As above, I was running as root. Any ideas? Wrong command... replace supscan with sup and -f with -v, and here is the virtual conical shaped hat <:-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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