problem with supfile

[Manolis Kiagias]

Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 10:47:21PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
>   
>> Pollywog wrote:
>>     
>>> Someone please tell me why my supfile is not working.  I think the problem is 
>>> the tag but I am unsure why:
>>>
>>> *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
>>> *default base=/var/db
>>> *default prefix=/usr
>>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2
>>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>>>
>>> # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try
>>> # commenting out the following line.  (Normally, today's CPUs are fast enough
>>> # that you want to run compression.)
>>> *default compress
>>>
>>> # This collection retrieves the www/ tree of the FreeBSD repository
>>> #www
>>> ports-all
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>>>   
>>>       
>> Since this is obviously a ports-supfile, are you sure you want to cvsup
>> the RELENG_6_2 ports;
>> These refer to the ports tree at the exact point when 6.2 was released.
>> You already have them, you installed that ports tree from your CDROM
>> during installation.
>> Instead, you probably need a line like:
>>
>> *default release=cvs tag=.
>>
>> to get the latest available ports.
>>     
>
> And if the OP did want the ports tree that shipped with 6.2, then RELENG_6_2
> would have been the wrong tag anyway (in that case the tag should have been
> RELEASE_6_2_0.)  
>
>   

True, and quite obviously :) I never csup-ed the release ports myself,
so I missed this one! Thanks.