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. 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. Questions: - What did I do wrong in the process?. - Is cvsup for installation of RELEASE 6.2 ports collection a bad idea anyway (technically) ? Proces: - I use the recently installed cvsup-without-gui, installed from ports - I deleted all entries and maps in/under /usr/ports (as recommended in the Handbook) - I modified the ports-supfile in usr/share/examples/cvsup and copied it to portswj-supfile in the same map (not good practice I know now....) The settings in the -supfile where: *default host=cvsup15.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE (the handbook suggests that this is a valid tag for ports) *default delete use-rel-suffix (I could not find a meaning for this in the books, anyone can tell me please?) *default compress ports-all - I ran: cvsup -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/portswj-supfile The conversation looked OK, no error messages but also no scrolling list of files There is a logfile in /var/db/sup ports-all, something like <nnnnn>.cvs:RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE. It shows a list of all the elements of the ports collection that looks normal and every record shows also RELENG_6_2_0_RELEASE. Regards, Walter Jansen _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"