upgrade then no ports

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Monday 19 December 2005 14:00, steve lasiter wrote:
> --- "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 19 December 2005 13:53, steve lasiter
> >
> > wrote:
> > > I have Freebsd 5.4 on all my servers. It had been
> >
> > a
> >
> > > while since the initial load so I decided to
> >
> > upgrade
> >
> > > all source code via cvsup and then ran make
> > > buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel.
> > >
> > > After all was said and done everything booted fine
> >
> > and
> >
> > > all was working well. When I went to install a new
> > > port I noticed that all my ports were gone. All
> >
> > that
> >
> > > is in my /usr/ports/ directory are the directories
> > > distfiles, and dns and a INDEX-5 file. I ran my
> > > ports-supfile for all-ports and it appeared to be
> > > installing but when it's done the /usr/ports/
> > > directory is unchanged. When I went to install
> >
> > through
> >
> > > sysinstall evey ftp site gives me this:
> > >
> > > Warning: Can't find the '5.4-RELEASE-p8'
> >
> > distribution
> >
> > > on this FTP server.
> > >
> > > I still consider myself a Freebsd newbie and feel
> >
> > I've
> >
> > > probably  missed something simple but I have had
> >
> > no
> >
> > > luck searching the net or bsd site.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Steve L
> >
> > In your ports-sup file do you have this line?
> >
> > *default tag=.
> >
> > -Mike
>
> Michael,
>
> Yes, I have
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4
>

Change it to *default release=cvs tag=.
see man cvsup (note the ".")

-Mike