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[Donald J. O'Neill]

Well, if it were me, I'd simply do:
    # rm -r /home/ncvs

Then I'd change "prefix='home/ncvs" to "prefix=/usr", just so I could 
cvsup the ports tree if I ever wanted to.
But after makeing that change, I'd run:
    # portsnap fetch extract
And know that that next time I wanted to update the ports tree, I'd run:
     # portsnap fetch update
Followed by (since I'd have portupgrade installed) running:
    # portversion -v | grep needs         or some other method of 
dtermining which ports needed upgrading.

But that's just me, and the way I would do it. There are other ways.

Don


Z. Wade Hampton wrote:
> Hello to all,
> Not long ago, I ran cvsup "successfully".
> In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist:
>
> # base=/var/db
> #               This specifies the root where CVSup will store information
> #               about the collections you have transferred to your system.
> #               A setting of "/var/db" will generate this information in
> #               /var/db/sup.  Even if you are CVSupping a large number of
> #               collections, you will be hard pressed to generate more than
> #               ~1MB of data in this directory.  You can override the
> #               "base" setting on the command line with cvsup's "-b base"
> #               option.  This directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
> #
> # prefix=/home/ncvs
> #               This specifies where to place the requested files.  A
> #               setting of "/home/ncvs" will place all of the files
> #               requested in /home/ncvs (e.g., "/home/ncvs/src/bin",
> #               "/home/ncvs/ports/archivers").  The prefix directory
> #               must exist in order to run CVSup.
>
>
>
> I attempted running cvsup with "base" and "prefix" locations other than the 
> ones stated above; and, it did not work.
>
> However, when I edited the supfile as described above, the whole process ran 
> to completion, "successfully".
>
> Well, now I have an updated ports tree in /home/ncvs/ports instead 
> of /usr/ports.
>
> So, my question this morning is what do I do with that?  Do I 
> treat /home/ncvs/ports as if it were /usr/ports?
>
> Do I copy the entire /home/ncvs/ports directory to /usr/ports for updated 
> ports?
>
> Thank you in advance for directives.
>
> Z. Wade Hampton
> Twin Bridges, Montana
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