Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 16:18:08 +0100 From: "Marius Nuennerich" <marius.nuennerich@gmx.net> To: "FreeBSD gnats submit" <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org> Cc: marius.nuennerich@gmx.net Subject: docs/75543: Update to articles/cvsup-advanced Message-ID: <1104160688.0@olaf.hackerzberg.dyndns.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200412271520.iBRFKPqN067333@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 75543
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Update to articles/cvsup-advanced
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 27 15:20:25 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Marius Nuennerich
>Release: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #3: Mon Dec 27 14:48:25 CET 2004
>Description:
Update to the last paragraph. Original author is informed.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- article.diff begins here ---
--- article.sgml.bak Fri Dec 17 01:10:04 2004
+++ article.sgml Fri Dec 17 01:15:30 2004
@@ -251,14 +251,19 @@
<sect2>
<title>Updating your ports collection for the first time</title>
- <para>Since ports are tagged <quote>.</quote> (ie -CURRENT), you can
- correctly <quote>sync</quote> them for the first time by adding the date
- keyword (cf &man.cvsup.1; for the exact format): you should
- specify a date as close as possible to that of <quote>shipping</quote> of
- your ports tree. After <command>cvsup</command> has correctly created the ports
+ <para>Since ports are normally tagged <quote>.</quote> (ie -CURRENT), you can
+ correctly <quote>sync</quote> them for the first time by using the tag
+ with which your ports were shipped. E.g., if you have installed the ports
+ collection from a 5.3-RELEASE Disk, you will use
+ <programlisting>ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_3_0 list=cvs:.</programlisting>
+ (which is tantamount to writing just
+ <programlisting>ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_3_0</programlisting>
+ and subsequently renaming the checkouts file.)
+ After <command>cvsup</command> has correctly created the ports
checkouts file, which is precisely the goal of this first
- special sync operation, the date field must be removed;
- all subsequent updates will be carried out smoothly.</para>
+ special sync operation, the normal <quote>.</quote> tag can be used
+ and the list field must be removed;
+ all subsequent updates will be carried out smoothly.</para>
<para>If you have been reading the apparently nit-picking
remarks in these sections, you will probably have recognized
--- article.diff ends here ---
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