Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 19:35:22 -0600 (CST) From: Lars Eighner <eighner@io.com> To: cscott@speakeasy.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvups with 5.3 stable Message-ID: <20041117193046.E2718@goodwill.io.com> In-Reply-To: <W4123211772150451100741483@webmail1> References: <W4123211772150451100741483@webmail1>
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 cscott@speakeasy.net wrote: > Has anyone got cvsup to sucessfully update their ports collection? > When I run cvsup, with tag=RELENG_5_3, cvsup just deletes > everything in /usr/ports. I replaced the ports collection with the > full port tarball from the ports collection search page. Cvsup > deletes that as well. I am using the ports-supfile from examples, > and have only change the cvsup host. Has anyone else experience > this? NEVER use any tag for ports except . It will always delete the whole tree if you use any tag other than . Ports do *not* come in releases, and since RELENG_5_3 is not . using it will always delete the whole tree. -- Lars Eighner eighner@io.com -finger for geek code- http://www.io.com/~eighner/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266
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