On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 03:00:55PM -0400 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a question about cvsup. I read the manual and can update my ports with no > problem. Here is my question though...what if I was to change the Makefile for a > port? > Is there a way I can still use CVSup to update my ports and merge the changes I > made > in the old Makefile with the new Makefile instead of having cvsup just delete the > old > one.
"It's a feature, not a bug." :-) If you have lots of disk space, you can try using CVSup to mirror the CVS repository and let CVS merge your changes: * Omit the `tag' in your cvsupfile. Just don't put one in. * Change the `prefix' to a place where you have a lot of space, such as /usr/local/portcvs. (Do NOT use /usr!) * Cvsup as normal. * You should find a lot of files in /usr/local/portcvs/ports/* with names ending in ",v". These are the CVS files. * Back up your ports tree (mv /usr/ports /usr/ports.old). * cd /usr && cvs -d /usr/local/portcvs checkout ports * If all went well, you have a ports tree. Now, always cvsup this way. To update your main ports tree, do `cd /usr/ports && cvs -d /usr/local/portcvs update'. This will try and merge your changes. This may have been a bit difficult to understand. I'm sure someone else can explain it better than I :-) -- Josh > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
