Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Thu Apr 7 11:25:26 PDT 2005


On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Chris wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote:
>
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>> I want to keep my ports up to date. in 5.3-release (i386)
>> 
>> So I copied a sample ports-supfile and edit as follows (just changed
>> my host)
>> 
>> However I got this message and I cannot figure out what "Release"
>> means.   In
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-CONFIG-VERS
>> Release is defined as "cvs."
>> 
>> ====
>> su-3.00# cvsup -g -L 2  ports-suprile
>> Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
>> Release not specified for collection "host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org"
>> ====
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance!!
>
> Sorry about that last one. Anyways, your ports-supfile should have nothing 
> more then this:
>
> *default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> *default delete use-rel-suffix ports-all
>
> I seen you had something that relates to src. Take that out.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Chris
>
> To know yourself is the ultimate form of aggression.
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Sorry again - properly formated...

*default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete
use-rel-suffix
ports-all




Best regards,
Chris

To know yourself is the ultimate form of aggression.


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