FreeBSD 8.0 p#3

[krad]

On 27 June 2010 22:14, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>wrote:

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> On 27/06/2010 19:38:43, Grant Peel wrote:
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> > When I ran CVSUp last time I seemed to have lost all ports accept the
> > newest ones. i.e. almost all the port dirs are empty.
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> > What is the best way to get them back?
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> Fix your ports supfile: for ports you /always/ want HEAD.  If you put
> something like RELENG_8_1 in ports.supfile, then you will see exactly
> the effect you described.  It's quite obvious why: the ports are simply
> not tagged RELENG_X_Y.
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>        Cheers,
>
>        Matthew
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assuming your ports are the the standard place best way to do it is
"/usr/bin/csup -h cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile". Obviously replace the uk for
something more appropriate for you