Cvsup refuse confusion

[Matthew Seaman]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:26:49AM -0700, Scott Schappell wrote:
> 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
> >
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> The refuse file goes in /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/refuse as mentioned in 
> the handbook at 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html 
> Section A.5.3.1
> 
> "The refuse file essentially tells *CVSup* that it should not take every 
> single file from a collection; in other words, it tells the client to 
> /refuse/ certain files from the server. The refuse file can be found 
> (or, if you do not yet have one, should be placed) in /base//sup/. 
> /base/ is defined in your supfile; by default, /base/ is 
> /usr/local/etc/cvsup, which means that by default the refuse file is 
> /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/refuse."

Uhh --- look at the OP's supfile.  See the line where it says
"*default base=/usr" ?  He's overridden cvsup(1)'s default base, which
is the standard practice for all of the cvsup'able collections of
stuff from the FreeBSD project.

The OP. needs to move the refuse file to:

    /usr/sup/refuse

	Cheers,

	Matthew	

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