reposted question

2006-12-20 Thread Z. Wade Hampton
Hello to all,
Not long ago, I ran cvsup successfully.
In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist:

# base=/var/db
#   This specifies the root where CVSup will store information
#   about the collections you have transferred to your system.
#   A setting of /var/db will generate this information in
#   /var/db/sup.  Even if you are CVSupping a large number of
#   collections, you will be hard pressed to generate more than
#   ~1MB of data in this directory.  You can override the
#   base setting on the command line with cvsup's -b base
#   option.  This directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
#
# prefix=/home/ncvs
#   This specifies where to place the requested files.  A
#   setting of /home/ncvs will place all of the files
#   requested in /home/ncvs (e.g., /home/ncvs/src/bin,
#   /home/ncvs/ports/archivers).  The prefix directory
#   must exist in order to run CVSup.



I attempted running cvsup with base and prefix locations other than the 
ones stated above; and, it did not work.

However, when I edited the supfile as described above, the whole process ran 
to completion, successfully.

Well, now I have an updated ports tree in /home/ncvs/ports instead 
of /usr/ports.

So, my question this morning is what do I do with that?  Do I 
treat /home/ncvs/ports as if it were /usr/ports?

Do I copy the entire /home/ncvs/ports directory to /usr/ports for updated 
ports?

Thank you in advance for directives.

Z. Wade Hampton
Twin Bridges, Montana
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Re: reposted question

2006-12-20 Thread Donald J. O'Neill

Well, if it were me, I'd simply do:
   # rm -r /home/ncvs

Then I'd change prefix='home/ncvs to prefix=/usr, just so I could 
cvsup the ports tree if I ever wanted to.

But after makeing that change, I'd run:
   # portsnap fetch extract
And know that that next time I wanted to update the ports tree, I'd run:
# portsnap fetch update
Followed by (since I'd have portupgrade installed) running:
   # portversion -v | grep needs or some other method of 
dtermining which ports needed upgrading.


But that's just me, and the way I would do it. There are other ways.

Don


Z. Wade Hampton wrote:

Hello to all,
Not long ago, I ran cvsup successfully.
In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist:

# base=/var/db
#   This specifies the root where CVSup will store information
#   about the collections you have transferred to your system.
#   A setting of /var/db will generate this information in
#   /var/db/sup.  Even if you are CVSupping a large number of
#   collections, you will be hard pressed to generate more than
#   ~1MB of data in this directory.  You can override the
#   base setting on the command line with cvsup's -b base
#   option.  This directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
#
# prefix=/home/ncvs
#   This specifies where to place the requested files.  A
#   setting of /home/ncvs will place all of the files
#   requested in /home/ncvs (e.g., /home/ncvs/src/bin,
#   /home/ncvs/ports/archivers).  The prefix directory
#   must exist in order to run CVSup.



I attempted running cvsup with base and prefix locations other than the 
ones stated above; and, it did not work.


However, when I edited the supfile as described above, the whole process ran 
to completion, successfully.


Well, now I have an updated ports tree in /home/ncvs/ports instead 
of /usr/ports.


So, my question this morning is what do I do with that?  Do I 
treat /home/ncvs/ports as if it were /usr/ports?


Do I copy the entire /home/ncvs/ports directory to /usr/ports for updated 
ports?


Thank you in advance for directives.

Z. Wade Hampton
Twin Bridges, Montana
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