[afnog] CVS updates

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:18:38PM +0000, Antonio Godinho wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have recently tried to do a cvsup on a 5.3 Freebsd machine with the 
> following supfile:
> 
> *default tag=RELENG_5
> *default host=cvsup16.FreeBSD.org
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default base=/var/db
> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> 
> src-all
> ports-all
> 
> 
> It has done the update and most of my ports have disappeared.... anything 
> wrong with the config file?

Explained at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

"Warning: Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags
are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an incorrect
or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do not want
deleted. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections."

The easiest way not to make this mistake is to
  cp /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile /root/
and edit that.

Regards,

Brian.