Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release

[Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai]

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Chris wrote:

> 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.
>
I removed src-all but getting the same error message "Release not
specified for collection"....I seem not to have specified release.
But in this ports-supfile, release is set to "cvs"....what's wrong?

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