Can't cvsup ports?

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:49:20PM -0700, Rick Berger wrote:
> Hi, -
> 
> Trying to cvsup ports-base (as a start).  I have no ports directory,
> as of yet, so this should be a fresh cvs checkout.  My supfile looks
> like this:
> 
> ---------------------
> # ports supfile
> 
> *default host=cvsup5.freebsd.org
> *default base=/usr
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_9
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> 
> ports-base
> ----------------------
> 
> So, I execute cvsup with a '-g -L2' and it goes through the motions and seems
> to think it checked out the collection.  I look under /usr/sup and there's 
> directory 'ports-base', and there's a checkout file in there with a list of
> stuff it thinks it checked out.
> 
> But, there's no ports directory when it's done, or anything else.  I've tried
> different servers (14 and 15).  I tried to "help it along" by creating a ports
> directory, but that didn't matter. I've scoured the disk after it's done (`find
> / -d ports`) and nothing shows.  I've tried several iterations, removing the
> /usr/sup/ports-base directory each time (so it presumably starts from scratch.)
>  Same non-result.
> 
> Note that cvsup seems to work fine with src-all/docs-all.  I also tried
> ports-all - no go.
> 
> Any idea what's up?

First of all, it is strongly recommened that you use ports-all without
a refuse file.  It will save you pain if you want to build an INDEX
later.  Second, and more importantly there is no RELENG_4_9 tag.  It's
RELEASE_4_9_0 for ports (though you probably don't want a tag at all
since that will result in an out of date ports collection which contains
known security problems.)

-- Brooks

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