Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release

[Chris]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote:
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> I want to keep my ports up to date. in 5.3-release (i386)
>
> So I copied a sample ports-supfile and edit as follows (just changed
> my host)
>
> However I got this message and I cannot figure out what "Release"
> means.   In
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-CONFIG-VERS
> Release is defined as "cvs."
>
> ====
> su-3.00# cvsup -g -L 2  ports-suprile
> Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
> Release not specified for collection "host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org"
> ====
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> - -----------------my "ports-supfile"
> # $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile,v 1.32 2004/05/24
> 06:23:15 cjc Exp $
> #
> # This file contains all of the "CVSup collections" that make up the
> # FreeBSD-current ports collection.
> #
> # CVSup (CVS Update Protocol) allows you to download the latest CVS
> # tree (or any branch of development therefrom) to your system easily
> # and efficiently (far more so than with sup, which CVSup is aimed
> # at replacing).  If you're running CVSup interactively, and are
> # currently using an X display server, you should run CVSup as follows
> # to keep your CVS tree up-to-date:
> #
> #       cvsup ports-supfile
> #
> # If not running X, or invoking cvsup from a non-interactive script, then
> # run it as follows:
> #
> #       cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile
> #
> # You may wish to change some of the settings in this file to better
> # suit your system:
> #
> host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
> #               This specifies the server host which will supply the
> #               file updates.  You must change it to one of the CVSup
> #               mirror sites listed in the FreeBSD Handbook at
> #               http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
> #               You can override this setting on the command line
> #               with cvsup's "-h host" option.
> #
> 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=/usr
> #               This specifies where to place the requested files.  A
> #               setting of "/usr" will place all of the files requested
> #               in "/usr/ports" (e.g., "/usr/ports/devel",
> "/usr/ports/lang").
> #               The prefix directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
>
> # Defaults that apply to all the collections
> #
> # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
> # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
> *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=.
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>
> src-all
>
> # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk
> bandwidth, try
> # commenting out the following line.  (Normally, today's CPUs are fast
> enough
> # that you want to run compression.)
> *default compress
>
> ## Ports Collection.
> #
> # The easiest way to get the ports tree is to use the "ports-all"
> # mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual "ports-*"
> # collections,
> ports-all
> #(after this, all are commented out)
> - -----------------
>
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Best regards,
Chris

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