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Date:      Mon, 13 Nov 2000 15:49:47 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        G D McKee <freebsd-stable@gdmckee.com>
Cc:        Stable FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: CVSup Source Code
Message-ID:  <XFMail.001113154947.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <00cf01c04dca$fe85fba0$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local>

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On 13-Nov-00 G D McKee wrote:
> Hi
> 
> When I supp'ed the source code for the current release of FreeBSD the program
> deleted the content of all the file in the ports tree and left the dir
> structure intact.  Has any one else had this problem.

With the ports collection you have to use 'tag=.'.  You can either use two
supfiles and run cvsup twice, or you can add " tag=." after 'ports-all' in your
supfile.

In fact, if you look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/4.x-stable-supfile it
contains a big warning about this. :)

> I do realise it is not entirely relevant to this email feed, but you must all
> have used one of three methods to patch your source tree.
> 
> G D McKee

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