Messed up port updating (Was Re: Updated to 4.10, now portupgrade?)

[Curtis Vaughan]

On 26 Aug, 2004, at 16:10, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:

> Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>
>>
>> Ok, first off I didn't follow the instructions above verbatim. What I 
>> did do is copy ports-supfile, edited it, and perform a cvsup using 
>> it.
>> All it seemed to do, however, is delete everything in the ports 
>> directory.
>>
>> Here's how I edited my ports-supfile
>>
>> *default host=cvsup10.us.FreeBSD.org
>> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
>> *default prefix=/usr
>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>> ports-all
>>
>>
>> Did I do something horribly wrong?
>
>
> Yes.  Well, not horrible, but this was pilot error.
>
> As I think you've been told once already recently
> (or at least someone has told someone else within
> the last 48 hours or so) you ***must*** use:
>
> *default release=cvs tag=.
>
>       (that's a dot or 'period'), because the ports tree isn't
> tagged like the RELENG branches are.
>
> So, in your case, cvsup replaced your extant ports
> tree with all the ones from the release it couldn't
> find, which happened to be nil ... and your ports
> collection is now blank.
>
> Kevin Kinsey
>
Now after running a successful cvsup with ports-supfile, I went to 
/usr/src/ and typed make update, which didn't really seem to do 
anything.  The prompt returned immediately.  So, I typed portsdb -U and 
its running.  However, I notice there are a number of "make: fatal 
errors encountered..." and "*** Error code 1: malformed entry: ***" .  
Is this something to be worried about?  On the other hand it looks as 
though they may have something to do with other language ports (german, 
french, etc.).  And I had the default refuse file under /sup/  in order 
not to download other language ports.  So, this makes me think that it 
doesn't really matter.