[afnog] CVS updates

[Antonio Godinho]

Found out the hard way...

Should learn to read better the info... :-)

Cheers,



Date sent:      	Tue, 3 May 2005 17:26:13 +0100
From:           	Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>
To:             	Antonio Godinho <antonio at nambu.uem.mz>
Copies to:      	afnog at afnog.org
Subject:        	Re: [afnog] CVS updates

> 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.



Antonio Godinho
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