problems with cvsup on FreeBSD 9 snapshot 201101

Bartosz Stec bartosz.stec at it4pro.pl
Wed Jun 15 13:18:40 UTC 2011


W dniu 2011-06-15 14:23, Holger Kipp pisze:
> Dear all,
>
> I had installed FreeBSD 9 amd64 from snapshot (ISO-image) located here:
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/201101/FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT-201101-amd64-dvd1.iso
>
> Today I wanted to cvsup to a later date to upgrade to ZFS v28
> and compiled port /usr/ports/net/cvsup-without-gui without problems.
>
> Starting freshly compiled cvsup then gives me
>
> "Illegal Instruction"
>
> This error seems to be identical to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-September/020083.html
>
> As this was created on a vanilla 9 snapshot using the default make.conf with only cvsup settings adapted I thought this might be of interest.
>
> Have now used csup instead of cvsup (which seems to have worked fine), and started cvsup once again (seems cvsup only gives "Illegal Instruction" when a file needs to be changed...).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Best regards,
> Holger
>
Although it's not a "fix" to your problem, doesn't cvsup became 
obsolete, from the moment when csup was integrated into the world (a 
couple of years ago I believe)?
If you just want to update the ports tree, use csup.

-- 
Bartosz Stec




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