Can't cvsup ports?

[Jaco van Tonder]

Rick Berger typed on a keyboard not too far away, on 7/7/2004 9:49 PM:

>Hi, -
>  
>
Hi.

>Trying to cvsup ports-base (as a start).  I have no ports directory,
>as of yet, so this should be a fresh cvs checkout.  My supfile looks
>like this:
>
>---------------------
># ports supfile
>
>*default host=cvsup5.freebsd.org
>*default base=/usr
>*default prefix=/usr
>*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9
>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>
>ports-base
>----------------------
>  
>
Rather use this line:
*default release=cvs tag=.
instead of
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9

All your ports will get deleted if you use the RELENG_4_9 tag as no such 
branch exist for ports.
It is always recommended that you cvsup ports with the HEAD (.) tag as 
this will ensure that you have the latest and greatest ports including 
all the latest security fixes.

>So, I execute cvsup with a '-g -L2' and it goes through the motions and seems
>to think it checked out the collection.  I look under /usr/sup and there's 
>directory 'ports-base', and there's a checkout file in there with a list of
>stuff it thinks it checked out.
>
>But, there's no ports directory when it's done, or anything else.  I've tried
>different servers (14 and 15).  I tried to "help it along" by creating a ports
>directory, but that didn't matter. I've scoured the disk after it's done (`find
>/ -d ports`) and nothing shows.  I've tried several iterations, removing the
>/usr/sup/ports-base directory each time (so it presumably starts from scratch.)
> Same non-result.
>
>Note that cvsup seems to work fine with src-all/docs-all.  I also tried
>ports-all - no go.
>
>Any idea what's up?
>  
>
The sky? ;)

Hope this helps.
---Jaco

>Any info appreciated,
>rickb
>
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