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March 6th, 2003, 06:20 PM

Scatt-Neko

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Help with cvsup

Hello, I am really new in unix world (and this is my first post in this forum too). I am still playing around (or, you can say, trying to gulp as much knowledge as possible) with my unix box.

I installed FreeBSD 4.7 couple weeks ago. and just now, I tried to learn how to update it with cvsup (without GUI). When it was checking my current freebsd, suddenly it says file system is full. I,then, check how much space I have, and this shows "/dev/ad0s1f 3.0G 2.9G -208.3M 107% /usr".

Well, now... while I tried to track down what's going on, I have another problem in hand. I made a "little" mistake in my cvsupfile. I have "*default prefix=/usr/ncvs" instead of "/src/ncvs".

Now my question is how do I fix them? what am I suppose to do? worst to worst I guess I can do fresh install, but if I can, I want to avoid it. *cries*

Please help... I am a lost little kitten...

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March 6th, 2003, 10:22 PM

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first one, you're out of disk space, either delete some stuff you don't need or get a new/bigger hard disk,

secondly, just edit your cvsupfile using your favourite text editor and make the required changes. also, here is a guide to using cvsup and i'm sure you'll find the handbook very useful.

March 8th, 2003, 10:52 AM

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thanks! I somehow manage to solve the problem. I cleaned up my HD using make clean for everything I ever installed.

Another question: how do I uninstall certain things? I installed KDE3 sometimes ago, but then I realize I never use the GUI b/c I always telnet to my unix box. how can I uninstall it?

Thanks!

March 23rd, 2003, 07:05 PM

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>> Another question: how do I uninstall certain things?

Code:

pkg_delete /var/db/pkg/certain_things-1.1/

will uninstall the 'certain_things-1.1' package.

Alternatively - in the spirit of BSD using Makefiles for almost everything - you can do:

Code:

cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt/
make deinstall

if you've installed mutt and later decide you want to deinstall it. This has the same effect as the above pkg_delete command I believe.

For more information on using 'make' under /usr/ports, have a read of:

/usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk

If you look at the following snippet which is taken from that file, it tells you about the various targets you can specify to 'make' under /usr/ports/ - ie 'make fetch', 'make fetch-list', etc.

A lot of these options are very useful - for example 'make fetch-list' just shows you what files would be downloaded if you ran 'make' on it's own, but without actually building the port.

Here's the snippet:

Code:

# Default targets and their behaviors:
#
# fetch         - Retrieves ${DISTFILES} (and ${PATCHFILES} if defined)
#                 into ${DISTDIR} as necessary.
# fetch-list    - Show list of files that would be retrieved by fetch.
# fetch-recursive - Retrieves ${DISTFILES} (and ${PATCHFILES} if defined),
#                 for port and dependencies into ${DISTDIR} as necessary.
# fetch-recursive-list  - Show list of files that would be retrieved by
#                 fetch-recursive.
# fetch-required-list - Show list of files that would be retrieved by
#                 fetch-required.
# fetch-required - Retrieves ${DISTFILES} (and ${PATCHFILES} if defined),
#                 for port and dependencies that are not already installed
#                 into ${DISTDIR}.
# extract       - Unpacks ${DISTFILES} into ${WRKDIR}.
# patch         - Apply any provided patches to the source.
# configure     - Runs either GNU configure, one or more local configure
#                 scripts or nothing, depending on what's available.
# build         - Actually compile the sources.
# install       - Install the results of a build.
# reinstall     - Install the results of a build, ignoring "already installed"
#                 flag.
# deinstall     - Remove the installation.
# package       - Create a package from an _installed_ port.
# describe      - Try to generate a one-line description for each port for
#                 use in INDEX files and the like.
# checkpatch    - Do a "patch -C" instead of a "patch".  Note that it may
#                 give incorrect results if multiple patches deal with
#                 the same file.
# checksum      - Use distinfo to ensure that your distfiles are valid.
# checksum-recursive - Run checksum in this port and all dependencies.
# makesum       - Generate distinfo (only do this for your own ports!).
# clean         - Remove ${WRKDIR} and other temporary files used for building.
# clean-depends - Do a "make clean" for all dependencies.
#
# Default sequence for "all" is:  fetch checksum extract patch configure build

Regarding cvsup - you can also setup your /etc/make.conf file to include something like:

Code:

SUP_UPDATE=     yes

SUP=            /usr/local/bin/cvsup
SUPFLAGS=       -g -L 2
SUPHOST=        cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org
SUPFILE=        /etc/supfile-src-stable
PORTSSUPFILE=   /etc/supfile-ports-all
DOCSUPFILE=     /etc/supfile-doc-all

Once you have your supfiles in order, when you execute:

Code:

cd /usr/src/
make update

your system will be updated via cvsup in one go.

A word of warning though you should only really update the /usr/src tree when you intend to rebuild the system using 'make buildworld'.

Most of this is in the handbook anyway:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...tting-edge.html

and for cvsup tips:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...book/cvsup.html
and
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...k/cvs-tags.html

March 24th, 2003, 02:02 PM

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Also you may want to check out portupgrade

/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade

in short......portupgrade -ra ....very powerful...very wonderful.

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