From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 16 07:33:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE22016A400 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 07:33:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A3E613C458 for ; Wed, 16 May 2007 07:33:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-10-135.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.10.135]:60286 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with smtp (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1HoE0r-0003Pd-5T for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 May 2007 09:33:33 +0200 Received: (qmail 61002 invoked from network); 16 May 2007 09:33:31 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with SMTP; 16 May 2007 09:33:31 +0200 Received: (qmail 96854 invoked by uid 1001); 16 May 2007 09:33:31 +0200 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 09:33:31 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Brian Behlendorf Message-ID: <20070516073331.GA96817@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Brian Behlendorf , questions@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ACL-Warn: Too high rate of unknown addresses received from you X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HoE0r-0003Pd-5T. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1HoE0r-0003Pd-5T e320dadb9d2f50de0c8e177543cc79ec Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports on FreeBSD 4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 07:33:34 -0000 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:06:24AM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > > I realize the ports on RELENG_4 have been EOL'd, but I'm stuck on 4 for > one system due to instability currently with the RELENG_6 box that will > take its place. I'd like to be able to get a ports tree that represents > the state of things just before support for 4.x was dropped. I thought I > read that the tag for that was RELENG_4_EOL. I tried using that by going > into /etc/make.conf and changing > > PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile > > to > > PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile > > and in /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile, a copy of > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile, I changed > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > to > > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_EOL > > I did a "make update" in /usr/ports and it started to remove every file > under /usr/ports. Yech. I had to go back to using > /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and do a make update from > /usr/src to get a /usr/ports tree back, though now of course that > /usr/ports tree doesn't work for 4.x (it expects the new rc.subr stuff > for example). > > I realize I'm treading on retired ground here... but any ideas? Yes, the tag you want to use is RELEASE_4_EOL, not RELENG_4_EOL. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se