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
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