Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:05:56 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Alex M <alex@myzona.net> Cc: Zhiui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, FreeBSD STABLE <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvsup problem Message-ID: <20010220200556.A43311@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <002001c09b7c$75424060$00e1fea9@parkson>; from alex@myzona.net on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:33:59PM -0800 References: <Pine.SOL.4.21.0102201514000.5848-100000@opal> <002001c09b7c$75424060$00e1fea9@parkson>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 12:33:59PM -0800, Alex M wrote: > I dont want to state any incorrect things here, but I would like to comment > on this one here of what I've heard from other sources about tag=. > > As also described in handbook, tag=. is only relevant to ports collection.. > what I have heard from other sources is that its not so correct and tag=. > can be relevant even to src-all if its put above that line, e.g. it depends > where u put the tag=. line. > This was clearly described on one of #freebsdhelp channels, when some guy > had his tag=. in a different place, just before the src-all, so actually he > was upgrading to current and not stable. > > I would be glad to hear 100% correct version of this, everybody says > different things and whom to believe? The '.' tag means "the head of the CVS tree", which is all there is for the ports collection (it's not branched), and in the case of the src tree, the head corresponds to what we call FreeBSD-CURRENT. Other FreeBSD branches like -STABLE are separate CVS branches and need a different tag. Other collections like the doc and www trees are also not branched and you need the '.' tag. If you try and cvsup a collection using a nonexistent tag it will delete all the files it contains. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6kz6kWry0BWjoQKURAmqZAJ9Jnn3HpsBGZgw0+WHzCsN8Fdf4/wCgsHdB h/TsvSNHXIv7k7fz95uO6Q4= =KFSc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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