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From: saravanan ganapathy <sarav_gsa@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: port update problem - deleted all the ports
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--- Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> wrote:

> saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> > Hai ,
> > 
> > I am using 5.3 release and included tag=RELENG_5_3
> to
> > my ports-supfile and when I tried to update ports
> > using " cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile", it
> deleted
> > almost all the ports and finally it says 
> > ...
> > ...
> > ...
> > Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/Makefile
> > Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/distinfo Delete
> > ports/x11-wm/yawm/pkg-descr
> > Shutting down connection to server
> > Finished successfully
> > 
> > 
> > My ports-supfile looks as 
> > 
> > *default host=cvsup10.us.freebsd.org
> > *default base=/var/db
> > *default prefix=/usr
> > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3
> > *default delete use-rel-suffix
> > ports-all
> > 
> > 
> > What is the problem?
> > 
> 
> The ports tree doesn't have tags so you should edit
> the above to
> 
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> 
> Note the '.'!!
> 
> Also are you sure that you want your ports tree in
> /var/db? /usr would 
> be more usual.
> 
> *default base=/usr
> 

I need to update to RELENG_5_3 from release. If I
don't include "tag=RELENG_5_3" , then how the server
'll gets updated to RELENG_5_3?

I need to update my packages with the latest security
patches.

I am not sure. Pls correct me if I am wrong

Sarav


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