Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thanks Lowell. Well, your suggestions made sense and at the very > least > > have showed me that the host name in the file was wrong... I've now > > changed it to an actual cvsup mirror (cvsup3.FreeBSD.org), and also > > tested the file with and without adding "tag=." after "ports-all". > But > > I'm still getting the same error (Release not specified for > collection > > "host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org"). > > Here's the file excluding commented-out lines: > > ===== > > host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > > There's your problem. This line shouldn't be there. It doesn't > start > with *default, so cvsup tries to interpret it (the whole thing) as a > collection name. ...yup, that was part of the problem....
> > > base=/usr > > prefix=/usr > > Remove these too. ...and that was the other part. Commenting-out these three lines in total sorted me. Thanks! > > > *default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org > > *default base=/usr > > *default prefix=/usr > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > *default delete use-rel-suffix > > *default compress > > ports-all tag=. > > ====== > > These are the times when I feel like doing "rm -rf /"!! :( > > It could be worse: "user-friendly" software gives *fewer* > indications > of the source of a problem... :-) Yes, but sometimes ignorance truly is bliss! Not in this case, of course, but sometimes! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
