On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:06:24AM -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
>
> I realize the ports on RELENG_4 have been EOL'd, but I'm stuck on 4 for
> one system due to instability currently with the RELENG_6 box that will
> take its place. I'd like to be able to get a ports tree that represents
> the state of things just before support for 4.x was dropped. I thought I
> read that the tag for that was RELENG_4_EOL. I tried using that by going
> into /etc/make.conf and changing
>
> PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile
>
> to
>
> PORTSSUPFILE= /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile
>
> and in /usr/local/etc/ports-supfile, a copy of
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile, I changed
>
> *default release=cvs tag=.
>
> to
>
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_EOL
>
> I did a "make update" in /usr/ports and it started to remove every file
> under /usr/ports. Yech. I had to go back to using
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile and do a make update from
> /usr/src to get a /usr/ports tree back, though now of course that
> /usr/ports tree doesn't work for 4.x (it expects the new rc.subr stuff
> for example).
>
> I realize I'm treading on retired ground here... but any ideas?
Yes, the tag you want to use is RELEASE_4_EOL, not RELENG_4_EOL.
--
Erik Trulsson
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