requesting some info on CVSUP (some is help related,
others are your own personal preferences)
Parv
parv at pair.com
Sat Jul 1 02:24:24 UTC 2006
in message <80f4f2b20606301736t3f86d8aen53038d675825ce91 at mail.gmail.com>,
wrote Jim Stapleton thusly...
>
> I'll just go based on the lines in the SUPFILE of interest:
>
>
> 1) *default base=/var/db
>
> Does anyone use anything else? Why (I mean beyond "my database isn't
> in /var/db", Why isn't it there)?
base is the place for cvsup to store its files in sup directory.
I have set it to /misc.
> 2) *default prefix=/usr
>
> Anyone have their ports prefix someplace other than /usr? Again why is
> it elsewhere?
Sure, it in /misc, which has much more free space than /usr which
has space only for the base system files (plus some room to cope
with the growth).
- Parv
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