cvsup problems

[Michael Wallendahl]

I think that maybe your cvsup configuration file may have a typo.

Maybe practice with upgrading your ports tree first?  

Copy the example 'ports-supfile' from /usr/share/examples/cvsup/, edit
the "*default host=" entry and run that:

=====
cd 
cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile .
vi ports-supfile
  <<change the '*default host=' entry to point to a valid repository.>>
cvsup -g -L 2 ~/ports-supfile
=====

There is a great tutorial on using portupgrade and cvsup here:

   http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/28/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Since the ports tree is the same for all versions of FreeBSD (I
believe), it might make sense to start with them.  Once you get cvsup
working on your ports tree, then you can figure out which source tree to
cvsup to stay current with your kernel and userland.

hope this helps,

-Mike

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:42:13AM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
> I just installed freebsd 4.9 is it the stable branch right now ??? I 
> have been tring to update everything useing cvsup and keep getting the 
> following error below is the important bits to my supfile
> 
> Release not specified for collection "cvsup7.FreeBSD.org"
> 
> # $FreeBSD: V21 /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup-all ver 1.1 2003/11/17  rmvg
> #==============================================================================
> # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
> # listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
> 
> #cvsup1.FreeBSD.org
> cvsup7.FreeBSD.org (maintainer John Polstra <jdp at FreeBSD.org>), 
> Washington state
> #cvsup2.jp.FreeBSD.org (maintainer Masafumi NAKANE <max at FreeBSD.org>)
> #cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org
> 
> ###############################################################################
> #
> # DANGER!  WARNING!  LOOK OUT!  VORSICHT!
> #
> # If you add any of the ports or doc collections to this file, be sure to
> # specify them with a "tag" value set to ".", like this:
> #
> #   ports-all tag=.
> #   doc-all tag=.
> #
> # If you leave out the "tag=." portion, CVSup will delete all of
> # the files in your ports or doc tree.  That is because the ports and doc
> # collections do not use the same tags as the main part of the FreeBSD
> # source tree.
> #
> ###############################################################################
> 
> *default host=cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org
> *default prefix=/usr
> # The following line is for 4-stable.
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # sources files
> #------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> src-usrsbin
> src-all
> 
> 
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