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From: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>
To: "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
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Subject: Re: where have all the ports & sysinstall packages gone ??
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 07:26:48 +1000
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Thanks Francisco

I've only been getting some of the smaller mailing lists lately because
questions generates hundreds of emails & we (Apana) mirrors the questions
one in a special (Apana members only) newsgroup.

I do check the postings periodically for items / threads of interest that
I've missed out on. The one from Matthew is one I hadn't got to yet so
thanks for mentioning it.

Is the main reason for CVS simply to "fix" bugs in the ports that have been
changed for some reason ?? If so, what happens with sysinstall packages on a
CD that people have downloaded / purchased / whatever  .... seems like those
must get just as "dated" as the ports, but I've rarely had a problem with
them .... mgetty is a memorable exception but I think the problems I had
with it were to do with the default makefile & inadequate information for
editing it in the source install.
>
> The cvsup chapter on the handbook is not so bad.
>
> Did you see Matthew Emmerton email on the list? it didn't seem like he CC
you.
>
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 08:37:44 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
> >http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cvsup.html
>
> The short on cvsup
> 1- Get client using /stand/sysinstall. It is on the net
> collection and it
> is called something like cvsup-bin.
>
> 2- Run it by typing: cvsup -g <script>
>
> I am attaching below a script for you to use.
> DO read the URL for instructions, but at least this may get you
> going.
> I call my script ports-cvsup so I call it by typing "cvsup -g
> ports-cvsup"
>
> ************ Script
> # $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile,v 1.19.2.1
> 2000/05/06 03:46:36 kris Exp $
> # cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile
> # Defaults that apply to all the collections
> #
> # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror
> sites
> # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors.html.
> *default host=cvsup9.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>
> # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the
> following line.
> *default compress
>
> ## Ports Collection.
> #ports-all
>
> # Be sure to ALWAYS cvsup the ports-base collection if you use
> any of the
> # other individual collections below. ports-base is a mandatory
> collection
> # for the ports collection, and your ports may not build
> correctly if it
> # is not kept up to date.
> ports-base
> ports-archivers
> #ports-astro
> #ports-audio
> ports-benchmarks
> #ports-biology
> ports-cad
> #ports-chinese
> ports-comms
> ports-converters
> ports-databases
> ports-deskutils
> ports-devel
> ports-editors
> ports-emulators
> ports-ftp
> ports-games
> #ports-german
> ports-graphics
> ports-irc
> #ports-japanese
> ports-java
> #ports-korean
> ports-lang
> ports-mail
> ports-math
> #ports-mbone
> ports-misc
> ports-net
> ports-news
> ports-palm
> ports-print
> #ports-russian
> ports-security
> ports-shells
> ports-sysutils
> ports-textproc
> #ports-vietnamese
> ports-www
> ports-x11
> ports-x11-clocks
> ports-x11-fm
> ports-x11-fonts
> ports-x11-servers
> ports-x11-toolkits
> ports-x11-wm
>
>
> francisco
> Moderator of the Corporate BSD list
> http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate
>
>
>



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