Re: Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-22 Thread J . C .
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Re: Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-21 Thread RW
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:08:03 +0300 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:37 -0400, "J.C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The "Using the Ports Collection" page in the handbook says to make > > sure /usr/ports is empty before running csup because otherwise "csup

Re: Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:37 -0400, "J.C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a beginner with FreeBSD and somewhat intermediate with Unix-like > operating systems in general, so please bear the nature of my > questions. I have some questions about CVSup that seem unclear from > the handbook. Right no

Re: Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-21 Thread RW
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:08:37 -0400 J.C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a beginner with FreeBSD and somewhat intermediate with Unix-like > operating systems in general, so please bear the nature of my > questions. I have some questions about CVSup that seem unclear from > the handbook. Right now

Very Beginning CVSup Questions

2008-07-21 Thread J . C .
I'm a beginner with FreeBSD and somewhat intermediate with Unix-like operating systems in general, so please bear the nature of my questions. I have some questions about CVSup that seem unclear from the handbook. Right now I'm sticking with RELENG_7_0; I intend to track -STABLE once I get the hang

Re: CVSup questions

2005-03-26 Thread Jay O'Brien
Subhro wrote: > Jay O'Brien wrote: /snip/ > >>I built src-all and ports-all. Now, there is a /usr/ports >>directory and and lots of directories and files therein. In >>/usr/ports, I did make fetchindex. It failed. The >>/usr/ports/Makeindex file was really Makeindex,v. I copied it >>as Makein

Re: CVSup questions

2005-03-26 Thread Subhro
Jay O'Brien wrote: pkg_version, however, failed. "Unable to open INDEX in pkg_do" I found that pkg_version http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/INDEX-5 ran ok, so the problem was the missing /usr/ports/INDEX-5. In fact there was no /usr/ports directory. This is because you didn't install the ports coll

CVSup questions

2005-03-26 Thread Jay O'Brien
When 5.3 RELEASE first came out, I used the miniinst.iso CD to install 5.3 on a spare computer for tests. It installed ok and based on how it worked, I updated my primary computer. Now I have an application for the spare computer, and I thought I would use it to verify my understanding of how

Re: CVSup questions

2004-11-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-11-23 19:58, Jay O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm attempting to follow "Using CVSup" and learn how CVSup works. > See: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html > > Questions about CVSup: > > 1. Where should I place supfile? Practically, anywhere you wa

Re: CVSup questions

2004-11-24 Thread Jay O'Brien
Kevin, Stheg; Wow. You answered questions I didn't know how to ask. I was confused between src-all and cvs-all. The confusion is because of the example supfile /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile. It calls for the src- all collection, which I mistakenly thought would get everything. Now I see

Re: CVSup questions

2004-11-23 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: >I have a system that right now I'm using to learn FreeBSD. I want to go >through the update process that I assume I'll have to follow regularly >once the computer is up and running as a web and mail server. Right >now I'm not concerned about backups; that's my next project. > >I'

Re: CVSup questions

2004-11-23 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Jay O'Brien wrote: I have a system that right now I'm using to learn FreeBSD. I want to go through the update process that I assume I'll have to follow regularly once the computer is up and running as a web and mail server. Right now I'm not concerned about backups; that's my next project. I'm

CVSup questions

2004-11-23 Thread Jay O'Brien
I have a system that right now I'm using to learn FreeBSD. I want to go through the update process that I assume I'll have to follow regularly once the computer is up and running as a web and mail server. Right now I'm not concerned about backups; that's my next project. I'm attempting to foll

Re[2]: Stupid cvsup questions

2003-12-15 Thread hugle
IMT> On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:34:55 -0500 IMT> Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At 11:41 PM +0200 12/15/03, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >> >Hi, >> > >> > >> >I have 2 identical (copy/paste) ports-supfiles on two machines: >> > >> >it# grep -v '#' /etc/ports-supfile >> >*default host=cvsup.

Re: Stupid cvsup questions

2003-12-15 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:34:55 -0500 Garance A Drosihn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:41 PM +0200 12/15/03, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > >Hi, > > > > > >I have 2 identical (copy/paste) ports-supfiles on two machines: > > > >it# grep -v '#' /etc/ports-supfile > >*default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org > >

Re: Stupid cvsup questions

2003-12-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:41 PM +0200 12/15/03, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: Hi, I have 2 identical (copy/paste) ports-supfiles on two machines: it# grep -v '#' /etc/ports-supfile *default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default c

Stupid cvsup questions

2003-12-15 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
Hi, I have 2 identical (copy/paste) ports-supfiles on two machines: it# grep -v '#' /etc/ports-supfile *default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress ports-all one is produceing : Updating co