Re: updating ports collection

From: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi_at_bsd.hu>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 10:29:47 +0100
Hello,

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 01:42:26AM -0600, mcabanatuan_at_wi.rr.com wrote:
> this should be a fairly simple question for any of you, but i've been working around my current system and decided it's time to update my ports collection. i worked through the stuff i needed to do in order to actually update, but when i 'make update' it returns this:
> 
> [1:33am][root_at_atari /usr/ports] make update
> -------------------------------------------------------------->>> Updating /usr/ports from cvs repository /usr/ports
> --------------------------------------------------------------cd /usr/ports; cvs -R -q update -A -P -dcvs update: in directory .
> :cvs [update aborted]: there is no version here; do 'cvs checkout' first
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> 
> any suggestions?

You are trying to update your ports collection via CVS, but you do not
have the necessary CVS metadata because you probably got it via cvsup or
at install time. The fix is to either run CVS manually or to use cvsup
which does not need this metadata.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Regards:

Szilveszter ADAM
Budapest
Hungary
Received on Tue Dec 30 2003 - 00:29:53 UTC

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