Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 01:16:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU> To: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Cc: chuck sumner <chuck@2inches.com>, Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Ports failures - HELP! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10205250108190.41725-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <200205250500.g4P4xx193735@tierzero.apana.org.au>
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On Sat, 25 May 2002, Brian Astill wrote: > On Sat, 25 May 2002 08:17, chuck sumner wrote, suggestting the -g flag, I > tried: > # cvsup -L2 -h -g cvsup10.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > and received the error message: You have the -g in the wrong place. -h needs an argument, i.e., the name of a host (to override the host variable in the file), so -h must be immediately followed by a hostname, i.e., by cvsup10.freebsd.org. As you have it, cvsup10.freebsd.org is not parsed (understood) as a host from which to get the sources. So how does cvsup interpret it? And what comes after it? -g does not need any arguments, and cvsup goes on to try to figure out the meaning of whatever comes next. We could figure that out, but it's easier just to do it right in the first place. Annelise > "/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile" is not a directory > which of course, it isn't! > Yes! /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile DOES exist! > Note that the hostname problem isn't mentioned this time. > > What CAN be going wrong? > -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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