From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 13:40:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 996E714C27 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:40:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 12228 invoked from network); 16 Nov 1999 21:33:18 -0000 Received: from useras16.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.137.20) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 16 Nov 1999 21:33:18 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA00973; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:33:13 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 21:33:13 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trying to RTFM, having problems Message-ID: <19991116213313.A341@marder-1> References: <19991115204101.A1589@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991115234459.A611@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991115234459.A611@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 11:44:59PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > I searched the freebsd website and i cannot find any info on the refuse > > files. > > "man cvsup", and search forward for "REFUSE". > The manpage coverage is a bit weak on refuse files until you've got it working once. I used John Polstra's FAQ and I submitted a patch for the manpage to elaborate the refuse file section. John accepted it and will include it in the next release of cvsup. > > Since i don't have an etc/vcsup directory, i places that file in the > > /usr/sup/doc-all directory next to the checkouts files. Is that the > > right place? > > Should be. I just have my cvsup stuff under /usr/local/etc/cvsup rather > than /usr, but it should still work if that's where your checkouts file > is. > > > CVSup proceeded to DL all the docs again anyway in spite of this, so > > something must be wrong. > > Shouldn't be, assuming you got the filename right. :-) If you > can't get it to work after checking the manpage and cvsup FAQ (see > http://www.polstra.com/) http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html I've rm'd the start of this thread, but if you are trying to avoid d/l'ing the non-English langauge docs then here is my refuse file for doing this (and excluding the non-English ports). It's /usr/sup/refuse: doc/es* doc/ja* doc/ru* doc/zh* ports/chinese ports/german ports/japanese ports/korean ports/russian ports/vietnamese HTH > then you could contact CVSup's author, he should be able to help. > > -- > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message