Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no /usr/ports Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0609061049570.9534@libra.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0609061035p40734023h6a448512cdba56e3@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0609061021530.9534@libra.sfsu.edu> <790a9fff0609061035p40734023h6a448512cdba56e3@mail.gmail.com>
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ortsnap: URL must be given via command line or configuration file. kayve# /usr/local/sbin/portsnap extract No snapshot available. Try running # portsnap fetch kayve# pkg_add -r cvsup Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup.tbz... Done. kayve# cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile cvsup: Command not found. kayve# whereis cvsup cvsup: /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/local/man/man1/cvsup.1.gz kayve# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? kayve# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile "/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile" is not a directory kayve# On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On 9/6/06, KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> >> my ports directory is gone. how'd that happen? >> > What were you doing before it disapeared? > > There are several ways to make /usr/ports disapear: > > 1. rm -rf /usr/ports/* > 2. cvs update -R RELENG_6 > 3. cvsup with an branch tag in the supfile for ports. > > Problem 2 & 3 are similar, as the ports tree is not branched. This > causes cvs or cvsup to delete the ports since there is no branch with > that tag (i.e. RELENG_6). Instead you need to specify a release tag > (i.e. RELEASE_6_1_0) or no tag (gets you the latest ports changes). > > If your using cvsup, post your supfile and someone will help you fix it. > > Scot > -- > DISCLAIMER: > No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. >
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