From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 12 10:08:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA09924 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:08:07 -0800 (PST) (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 KAA09896 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 10:08:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA00853; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:52:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199712121752.JAA00853@austin.polstra.com> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: disappearing ports In-Reply-To: <199712120007.QAA15240@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> References: <199712120007.QAA15240@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:52:40 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If you are running -stable, use RELENG_2_2 for src and no tag for > ports. What he really means is, use "tag=." for ports. If you use no tag at all, you'll get the RCS files instead of the latest version of the sources. About the consequences of using the wrong tag, all I can say is that I long ago put warnings every place I could think of -- the example cvsupfiles, the handbook, the cvsup manual page. I also implemented a safety limit on the number of files that can get deleted. (See cvsup(1)). I don't know what else I could do, short of putting some ugly FreeBSD-specific hack into the software (which I will not do). John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth