CVSup the port collection

Frank J. Laszlo laszlof at vonostingroup.com
Tue Jan 11 17:37:44 PST 2005


Olivier Nicole wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I was trying to cvsup the port collection, but all it did was deleting
>some ports, and never replaced them with new ones.
>
>I would have thought that the following configuration file would do
>the trick, but it did not. What have I wrong?
>
>TIA
>
>Olivier
>
>*default tag=RELENG_5_3
>  
>
ports dont have tags. replace RELENG_5_3 with a period.

>#*default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
>*default host=cvsup4.jp.FreeBSD.org
>*default base=/var/db
>*default prefix=/usr
>*default release=cvs
>*default delete use-rel-suffix
>*default compress
>ports-base
>ports-databases
>
>cvsroot-common
>cvsroot-ports
>  
>
You shouldnt really only cvsup certain parts of the ports tree. its 
generally not a good idea. ports-all is all you need here. and I dont 
think you will need cvsroot stuff.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo



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