Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 From: "Richard Shea" <freebsdQ0@richardshea.fastmail.fm> To: "Chris Pressey" <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange Message-ID: <20031208230015.7B2AE733E8@server2.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20031208145333.2f0dce5d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> References: <20031208223913.CB7E875E7F@server2.messagingengine.com> <20031208145333.2f0dce5d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 14:53:33 -0800, "Chris Pressey" <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> said: > On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 11:39:13 +1300 > "Richard Shea" <freebsdQ0@richardshea.fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > Hi - I've just installed 4.8 from scatch. The next thing I wanted to > > do was to CVSUP so I ... > > > > cd /usr/ports/net/cvsupit > > make install distclean > > > > ... that was a bit strange because cvsupit seemed to start > > automatically as part of the 'make'. I wasn't watching it happen but I > > flicked back to the screen and I found I was being prompted for which > > CVSUP server I wanted to use. > > > > Anyway I went along with that and allowed the CVSUP session to start > > and and all seemed to go well, I ended up with a "All finished! ... > > blah, blah" dialog box (not a real dialog I was running this from the > > command line). > > > > However when I then pressed Enter on that dialog box (to go back to > > the prompt) I get ... > > > > ===> Generating temporary packing list > > ** Missing package files for cvsupit-3.1. > > *** Error code 1 > > > > Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsupit. > > > > ... that doesn't look too good and yet the CVSUP session appears to > > have all gone fine - can anyone explain what's happening ? > > > > regards > > > > richard shea. > > No clue as to what's going wrong, sorry. > > But you should probably be using cvsup (or cvsup-without-gui), as IIRC > cvsupit is obsolete. (It's not in my ports tree, anyway.) > Hmmm, OK ... I was working off ... http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html ... and re-reading that has answered part of my question ... <QUOTE> If you do not know anything about CVSup at all and want a single package which will install it, set up the configuration file and start the transfer via a pointy-clicky type of interface, then get the net/cvsupit package. Just hand it to pkg_add(1) and it will lead you through the configuration process in a menu-oriented fashion. </QUOTE> ... don't know if the doco is out of date ? I may use something else in the future as you suggest but what I'm interested in initially is does this message ... ===> Generating temporary packing list ** Missing package files for cvsupit-3.1. *** Error code 1 ... mean the machine is in a good state or a bad state (.. ah, the eternal question :-) thanks richard
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