port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
Sun Jan 6 12:24:18 PST 2008
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:05:17PM +0000, Frank Shute wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:10:59PM +0100, Walter Jansen wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Upon reading chapters of the Handbook about the Ports collection and CVSup,
> > I wanted to CVSup the ports collection for the RELEASE 6.2. Stupidly using
> > the wrong tag (tag=.), I erroneously but successfully installed the CURRENT
> > version. I could have used SYSINSTALL for the RELEASE 6.2 ports, but for the
> > sake of learning and training myself I did not.
>
> You used the right tag. There is only a current tag as you only have a
> current ports tree to be used for all releases ie 6.2,6.3 & 7.0 (The
> ports might work with older releases too).
Wrong. The ports tree is not branched, but it is tagged and it does have
tags corresponding to each FreeBSD release.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Problem:
> >
> > - I ran CVSup again with the correct tag but though everything in the
> > process looked normal, the map usr/ports remains empty and nor with whereis
> > nor with pkg_xxx any information about ports can be found.
>
> You ran cvsup again with the wrong tag.
>
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > - What did I do wrong in the process?.
>
> Used the wrong tag second time around.
>
> >
> > - Is cvsup for installation of RELEASE 6.2 ports collection a bad idea
> > anyway (technically) ?
>
> No. Although there is no 6.2 ports collection, just CURRENT.
Of course there is a 6.2 ports collection. What else would you call the
ports tree shipped with FreeBSD 6.2?
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Proces:
> >
> > - I use the recently installed cvsup-without-gui, installed from ports
>
> Use csup(1) it's identical to cvsup but no dependencies as it's in
> base & written in C.
Not quite identical. There are a couple of features that cvsup(1) has, but
which csup(1) does not yet have.
To just check out a copy of the ports tree either should work fine though.
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se
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