port update problem - deleted all the ports

[Mark Ovens]

saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> Hai ,
> 
> I am using 5.3 release and included tag=RELENG_5_3 to
> my ports-supfile and when I tried to update ports
> using " cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile", it deleted
> almost all the ports and finally it says 
> ...
> ...
> ...
> Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/Makefile
> Delete ports/x11-wm/yawm/distinfo Delete
> ports/x11-wm/yawm/pkg-descr
> Shutting down connection to server
> Finished successfully
> 
> 
> My ports-supfile looks as 
> 
> *default host=cvsup10.us.freebsd.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> ports-all
> 
> 
> What is the problem?
> 

The ports tree doesn't have tags so you should edit the above to

*default release=cvs tag=.

Note the '.'!!

Also are you sure that you want your ports tree in /var/db? /usr would 
be more usual.

*default base=/usr

HTH

Regards,

Mark


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