Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 23:25:34 -0500 (EST) From: Doug Denault <doug@safeport.com> To: John <papalia@udel.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Updateing Ports Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001118232100.4439A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001118231211.00afe3d0@mail.udel.edu>
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Absolutely. I missed/forgot this - thanks to all But I find it hard to believe that one ports collection will suffice for 2.2 --> 4.2. Is a port supposed to have meta data to take care of any release dependencies. Or is the userland API a constant? On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, John wrote: > > >I just updated the ports collection with the following: > > > >*default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > >*default base=/usr > >*default prefix=/usr > >*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_1_1_RELEASE > >*default delete use-rel-suffix > > > >1) The end result of this is /usr/ports/INDEX was deleted? > >2) What did I do wrong? How can I get INDEX back > > You most likely want to create a separate configuration file for your ports > collection, and make the tag=. (yes, that is a period there) instead of > tag=RELENG..... > > From the online docs: > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-CONFIG-VERS > > Here are the branch tags that users might be interested in. Keep in mind > that only the tag=. is relevant for the ports collection. > > tag=. > > Hope that helps, > --John > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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