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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Subject: Re: Querying a cvsup server
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a way to query one of the FreeBSD cvsup mirrors, something
>> like 'svn list -v svn:...' (only with cvs or csup)?  I'm looking to
>> find the revision or date of a file.
>
> Anonymous CVS is probably the best approach for you.
> It's covered in the Handbook.

The goal is to check arbitrary files on FreeBSD cvsup servers to see if 
they are up to date.  AFAIK, there are only a couple of anoncvs servers 
and the normal cvsupN.freebsd.org servers don't do that.