CVSup & ports collection

Scott Corey scott at bsdprophet.org
Mon May 26 16:14:39 PDT 2003


timmssimon at shaw.ca wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just tried to update my ports collection using CVSup.  I followed the instructions in the hand book and specified the following:
> 
> *default host=cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org 
Keep
> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
keep
> *default prefix=/usr
keep
> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
remove try this instead
*default  release=cvs
*default  tag=RELENG_4  <--- if you want the latest 4.x stable
*default  delete use-rel-suffix
> 
> src-all
> 
add between these two " *default tag=. " don't include the "", this will 
give you the latest ports.

> ports-all
> 
> 
> The CVSup seems to run fine.  I am left, however, with a large number of files with ",v" appended to the end.  Is there some sort of merger procedure which I should follow to update my current files and to rename the new files to their name without the ",v"? 



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