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Michael Powell writes:
>  I can only speak to cvsup or csup (which I use) but I'd like to point out a
>  very common mistake wrt either. It is a good idea to have two different sup
>  files, as they will need to download different collections of material. For
>  example this:
>  
>  *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7_0
>  src-all
>  
>  combination will pull down the system sources for the security updates to
>  RELEASE. Read in the Handbook about the tags and collections.
>  
>  I keep a separate sup file for keeping the ports tree updated and the
>  difference is here:
>  
>  *default release=cvs tag=.
>  ports-all

	I have a file for src-, one for ports-, and one for doc-.


				Robert Huff