From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 14:23:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9A416A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta7.pltn13.pbi.net (mta7.pltn13.pbi.net [64.164.98.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726E443D2D for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:23:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (ee1dac5a9947b9c798865e38ba0542a5@adsl-67-119-53-203.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.203])i2GMNRXY012294; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:23:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8027651C12; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:23:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:23:26 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Scott K. Benolkin" Message-ID: <20040316222326.GA50465@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200403161925.i2GJPXxf006323@fantasy.software.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200403161925.i2GJPXxf006323@fantasy.software.umn.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dating a ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:23:27 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:25:33PM -0600, Scott K. Benolkin wrote: > For CVSuping a ports tree (e.g., the ports distribution from a release CD) > for the first time (i.e., no preexisting checkouts file), section 4.3 of > Salvo Bartolotta's "CVSup Advanced Points" article > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article > .html) > recommends, "you should specify a date as close as possible to that of > `shipping' of your ports tree." It's easy enough to do this roughly, but > I'm curious if anyone knows an "official" (or at least surefire) way to > easily and precisely determine the "shipping" date of a ports tree > (realizing that the "date" keyword will specify a time down to the second). > I'm not trying to say this is essential, but if there's a best practice, > I'd like to know. cvsup to the tag of the release you are installing. See the handbook for information about cvsup tags. Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAV35eWry0BWjoQKURAta4AKCcpLEXyfi8vxaSnV8bMd2vvOWQ6QCeNPH7 XTlxXaLa3b6qwfDASQLMLX4= =2xWB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--