Cvsup refuse confusion

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Mon Sep 22 09:40:15 PDT 2003


On Monday 22 September 2003 11:13 am, Charles Howse wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to eliminate all the non-English ports and documentation.
> I've deleted the relevant directories in /usr/ports and /usr/share/doc,
> But they reappear on subsequent cvsups.
> Where have I gone wrong?
>
> ********* /etc/cvsupfile *********
>
> *default  host=cvsup11.FreeBSD.org
> *default  base=/usr
> *default  prefix=/usr
> *default  release=cvs
> *default  tag=RELENG_4_8
> *default  delete use-rel-suffix
>
> src-all
> *default tag=.
> ports-all
> doc-all
>
> ********* /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/ports-all/refuse *********
>
> doc/da_*
> doc/de_*
> doc/el_*
> doc/es_*
> doc/fr_*
> doc/it_*
> doc/ja_*
> doc/nl_*
> doc/no_*
> doc/pl_*
> doc/pt_*
> doc/ru_*
> doc/sr_*
> doc/zh_*
> ports/INDEX
> ports/chinese
> ports/french
> ports/german
> ports/hebrew
> ports/hungarian
> ports/japanese
> ports/korean
> ports/polish
> ports/portuguese
> ports/russian
> ports/ukranian
> ports/vietnamese
>
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
>

Check for the existence of the folder /usr/sup.  If it exists, move your 
refuse file to it.

Also, should you be refusing to update ports/INDEX? I refuse the non-English 
ports; but my refuse file does not include ports/INDEX.

I hope this helps.

Andrew Gould


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