CVSUP Mirror

[Tom Parquette]

Lonnie Santella wrote:
> FreBSD 4.10 Release
> CVSUP-MIRROR v. 1.3_2  freshly installed.
> 
> I got the cvsup-mirror port installed without any errors. The CVSUPD 
> daemon is running. I can connect to my mirror from another server. When 
> I try to update a ports collection (i.e. ports-editors) is will spit out 
> the error:
> 
> "Collection "ports-editors" release "cvs" is not available here"
> 
> I did not specifiy any of the default collections during the install 
> (i.e. src, www, gnats) because all I want to make available via cvsupd 
> is the ports collections. However, since the install never asked me 
> anything about ports, I'm hesitant that I have not properly made them 
> available via cvsup.
> 
> I've been throught the FreeBSD Handbook, and the "cvsup.org" website - 
> absolutely no help at all. I've also searched through the 
> /usr/ports/net/cvsup-mirror directory just to find absolutely no 
> documentation whatsoever.
> 
> All I want to do is run a mirror so I can keep the ports trees on my 
> other BSD servers up-to-date.
> 
> Can you please help me?
> 
> -just a little frustrated
> 
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Lonnie,
I didn't see any cvsup files so let me see what I can do by working 
backwards with you...

I have cvsup-mirror running on one of my machines mirroring the entire 
cvsup collection.

Normally I update the entire ports tree but I tried to update just 
ports-editors.  It appeared to work.  This is the cvsupfile I ran:
*default  host=192.168.0.20
*default  base=/usr
*default  prefix=/usr
*default  release=cvs
*default  tag=.
*default  delete use-rel-suffix
ports-editors

I did not get the error message you mentioned until I changed the 
collection name to something bogus.  e.g. I changed ports-editors to 
ports-editors-junk.

This makes me think you are not mirroring, or not mirroring correctly, 
the ports tree.

The supfile that goes with my cvsup-mirror looks like this:
$ more /usr/local/etc/cvsup/supfile
#
# Standard supfile for CVSup FreeBSD mirrors.
#
*default delete use-rel-suffix umask=002
cvs-all      release=cvs     prefix=prefixes/FreeBSD.cvs
gnats        release=current prefix=prefixes/FreeBSD-gnats.current
www          release=current prefix=prefixes/FreeBSD-www.current
mail-archive release=current prefix=prefixes/FreeBSD-mail.current
distrib      release=self    prefix=prefixes/distrib.self
$

I weould check to see what you have in the spot where I have cvs-all.

There is a discussion in section A.5.5 of the FBSD Handbook that talks 
about the various file collections.  It is at: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
You should note the warning about the need to ALWAYS update ports-base. 
  Even if you are not updating the whole ports tree.

Cheers...