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Hey,
I've installed 4.6-RELEASE, and:
pkg_add -r cvsup

The problem: no template files in:
/usr/share/examples/cvsup/

I have also deleted the file and tried to install from the cd, but no
success.

I saw a previous guy posting the same question and getting an answer like
look in:
/usr/src../examples/ and "make install" from there??? I don't understand
that!

Thanks
Didier

The files seem to have been left out of the binary distribution of
4.6, apparently through a packaging error.  I don't have any idea
about your specific problem here, though; the cvsup package should not
care whether that directory even exists.  It *certainly* should
install fine without those files.  

If I'm understanding your explanation correctly, you'll need to post
the errors that you got from pkg_add.  If you *did* get cvsup
installed okay, but need the examples to figure out how to create your
own supfile, you can get them from the source tree -- either on your
machine (if you have the sources installed), or from somewhere else (if
you don't).

Quote:> I have also deleted the file and tried to install from the cd, but no
> success.

Which file did you delete?  What were the symptoms when you had "no
success"?  

Quote:> I saw a previous guy posting the same question and getting an answer like
> look in:
> /usr/src../examples/ and "make install" from there??? I don't understand
> that!

This means typing the following two commands at the command line:
 "cd /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup"
 "make install"
If you really need an explanation of what these mean, you should start
by reading a basic Unix book.

Alternatively, you could hand-copy those files to the examples
directory.  But in any case, you don't use those files for running
cvsup; they are *examples* that may help you understand how to create
your own supfiles, but they won't work exactly as-is.

Good luck.

These files were left off the 4.6-disc1.iso (the installation iso).
If you install full source, they will be in
/usr/src/share/examples/cvsup
You can just copy them from there to where you want them:
cp /usr/src/share/examples/cvsup/* /usr/share/examples/cvsup

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P.S. If you need source, use /stand/sysinstall, choose Configure, and then
Distributions, and then src/examples (if you don't want to install full source).

Instead of copying the files, you can
cd /usr/src/share/examples
and type
make install

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Sorry, I think it's src/share not src/examples as the name of the source
you need.

The example files are not installed by the port (they're supposed to be there
already, after all).

Quote:> Instead of copying the files, you can
> cd /usr/src/share/examples
> and type
> make install

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Quote:

>Alternatively, you could hand-copy those files to the examples
>directory.  But in any case, you don't use those files for running
>cvsup; they are *examples* that may help you understand how to create
>your own supfiles, but they won't work exactly as-is.

Not true.  If you set things up in /etc/make.conf, they work just fine
with no modifications whatsoever.
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There's no /etc/make.conf in my 4.6-RELEASE system. Either it's an
omission like the cvsup examples, or they removed it altogether...

Vivien

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there isn't one by default; you have to create it. you can find some
examples in /etc/defaults/make.conf.

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Oops. I did try to look for information in the docs for this (I know
that I set up make.conf on my 4.3-RELEASE system), but all the
documentation I could find talked about making your own cvsup files,
etc. Was I just looking in the wrong place?

Vivien

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Well, okay, that is true; the host entry (which is deliberately bogus
in the example files) can be overridden at the command line.

There won't be an /etc/make.conf unless you create it.

That file should be only the over-ride of the settings in
/etc/defaults/make.conf.  Do NOT edit the file in defaults, but
just change the variables values from that file in the
/etc/make.conf.

Also see   man make.conf   - for values that are not in
the /etc/defaults/make.conf.

There is a LOT of information in the man file - and at least
a quick scan of it may give you some ideas.

Bill
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