Cannot use cvsup

[Kent Stewart]

On Saturday 16 July 2005 12:05 pm, Brian John wrote:
> Igor Robul wrote:
> > Brian John wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I can't use cvsup for some reason.  I just tried upgrading from
> >> 5.3 to 5.4.  When I try to use cvsup, it says this:
> >> su-2.05b# cvsup
> >> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXaw.so.8" not found,
> >> required by "cvsup"
> >
> > If you dont have X11 on this machine, then you need
> > "cvsup-without-gui" package
> >
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> i think what is happening is cvsup is not getting the makefiles for
> some reason.  if i go into all of my ports, there are no makefiles.
> how could this have happened?  i added these lines to ports-supfile,
> is this correct?
>
> *default host=cvsup14.us.freebsd.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default tag=RELENG_5_4
> src=all

For starters, it is src-all. You also have to use tag=. on doc-all. I 
have always found it best to separate cvsuping the docs and ports into 
separate shell scripts. That way you can use the sample scripts and not 
mess things up.

Kent

> ports-all tag=.
> doc-all
>
> thanks
>
> /Brian
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