From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 19 21:42:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA26125 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:42:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA26117 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:42:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00466; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:42:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710200442.VAA00466@austin.polstra.com> To: cdillon@tri-lakes.net Subject: Re: Making a release... In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 21:42:06 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , Chris Dillon wrote: > After I spent a while reading cvsup's manual > page I found out all I had to do was remove the "tag" lines out of my > cvsupfile to put it in CVS mode as opposed to CHECKOUT mode. Yup, that's exactly right. > By the way, ports-all and doc-all still have a tag of ".", can I remove > this tag, or should it stay? (I vaguely remember hearing that something > bad might happen if they got removed.) The something bad you're remembering is probably if you try to set the tag to something else, like RELENG_2_2. That will promptly delete your ports and docs, because they aren't tagged the same way as the main source tree. The "." tag is valid for all the collections that originally came out of the CVS repository. So the question is: Do you want to ... * Have the ports and docs in source form ==> keep the ``tag=.'', or * Have the ports and docs in CVS repository form ==> get rid of the ``tag=.''. Note, if you do decide to get rid of the tag clause, you will probably want to also change your "prefix" setting to some other directory, so that your CVS files don't get mixed together with your old text-form sources. The prefix for ports and docs should be the same one that you set for your "src-*" collections in CVS form. The standard prefix is "/home/ncvs" but it doesn't really matter what you use. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth