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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: trying to upgrade to 2.2
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In-Reply-To: <199612082312.XAA100434@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> from "Steve Sims" at Dec 8, 96 06:11:16 pm
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> > build /u/build2.2/Root, using dump/restore to copy my (working)
> > 2.1.6.1 system  (/, /var, /usr).
> > 
> > cvsupped 12/6 (release=cvs host=cvsup.freebsd.org)
> > 
> > extracted with:
> >     cvs -d /home/ncvs $QUIET -r checkout -r RELENG_2_2 -d `pwd`/src src
> 
> and this reminded me of a question that's been rattling around in the back
> of my brain for some time: Where is the definitive listing of tags that
> cvsup can use to pull code sets from the cvs repository?  Stated another
> way, how would an idjit (me) know what tag names in cvs correspond to what
> versions (I presume all the way back to 2.0.something.
> 
> On the machine that I use to track -CURRENT, 'tag=.', so that's a
> no-brainer, but what if I wanted to track, say, 2.2?
> 
> Inquiring minds want to know.  (Yes, I've R'd TFM).

Actually, there should have been a list checked in at the top level so that
you could check out the list, then check out the tag branch.

You would, of course, reset the tags on the tag list file each time you
checked it out... 8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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