Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:40:39 -0800 From: Chris Pressey <cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> To: "Richard Shea" <freebsdQ0@richardshea.fastmail.fm> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSUPIT pkg_add 90% good/10% strange Message-ID: <20031208154039.53419c3c.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <20031208230015.7B2AE733E8@server2.messagingengine.com> References: <20031208223913.CB7E875E7F@server2.messagingengine.com> <20031208145333.2f0dce5d.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> <20031208230015.7B2AE733E8@server2.messagingengine.com>
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On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 12:00:15 +1300 "Richard Shea" <freebsdQ0@richardshea.fastmail.fm> wrote: > 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: > > > > > [of cvsupit weirdness] > > > > 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 IIRC cvsupit is obsolete.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 don't know if the doco is out of date ? Looks like it. According to the CVS logs, cvsupit was removed on May 6 of this year: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/cvsupit/Attic/ > 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 :-) Hm, I would say a bad state, but not *very* bad. Looks like cvsupit is partially installed? You might be able to fix it up by running pkg_delete cvsupit-3.1 which should delete any files that were installed by the cvsupit package (and possibly give you some warnings when trying to delete ones that weren't.) -Chris
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