here is my /usr/sup/current/refuse file:

pkgsrc/japanese
pkgsrc/plan9
pkgsrc/cad
pkgsrc/biology
pkgsrc/ham

seems to work ok for pkgsrc

G

> On 8/2/01 1:43 PM, "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 01:59:38PM +0100, Greg MATTHEWS wrote:
> >> i use sup to keep pkgsrc up to date but it seems to modify every subdirectory
> >> in the tree - is this normal. it recieves the pkgsrc/..../CVS/Entries for
> >> (seemingly) every pkg. this is my coll.list file:
> >> 
> >> current release=pkgsrc host=sup.netbsd.org hostbase=/ftp/pub \
> >> base=/usr prefix=/usr backup use-rel-suffix compress delete
> > 
> > 'man sup'. It looks like you can list files you don't want in a file called
> > 'refuse' in /usr/sup/
> 
> I tried doing this myself, unsuccessfully.  To test, I created a
> /usr/sup/refuse file with one line, containing the word "ham," in the hope
> that the /usr/pkgsrc/ham directory would be ignored.  (My coll.list looks
> just like Greg's above.)  I then deleted the ham directory and ran sup.
> When it finished updating pkgsrc, I had a new ham directory.
> 
> I can't see from the sup man page what I did wrong.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Phil
>