From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 30 20: 9: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bastuba.partitur.se (bastuba.partitur.se [193.219.246.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3458F37B9A8 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:08:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from stordatan.palle.se (c193.150.250.87.cm-upc.chello.se [193.150.250.87]) by bastuba.partitur.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA24192; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 05:08:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Received: from partitur.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stordatan.palle.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA04546; Mon, 31 Jul 2000 05:08:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from girgen@partitur.se) Message-ID: <3984EDC8.D3781F0E@partitur.se> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 05:08:56 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn Organization: Partitur X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: sv, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Huizer , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup and checkout problems References: <398123E5@zathras.cc.vt.edu> <20000728152045.A15787@dohd.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Huizer wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:51:36AM -0400, dafishe4 wrote: > > i'm having some trouble using cvsup to update my version of freebsd to 4.1. > > i created a cvsuptfile: src-cvsupfile > > *default tag=RELENG_4 > > *default release=cvs > > *default host=cvsup3.freebsd.org > > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > > *default prefix=/usr/cvsuproot > > *default delete > > *default use-rel-suffix > > *default compress > > src-all > > > > next i ran: cvsup -g -L2 /usr/local/etc/cvsup/src-cvsupfile > > this appeared to work fine...however i didn't get exactly what i expected. > > none of the files in /usr/cvsuproot/src end in ,v. > That's right, you cvsup'ed with tag RELENG_4 so you got the checkedout > 4.-stable sources. tag=. will give you the CVS tree Actually, I think tag=. will give you the current tree. no "tag=" line at all will give you the entire cvs tree, all versions since Stonehenge included, and files ending in ',v', which seems to be what you want, right? If all you want is a fresh stable src tree, you need not fetch the cvs tree first, and the tag is correct. This is what you did, as Mark also pointed out. Check /usr/share/examples/cvsup/*-supfile files for more details. -- Palle To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message