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Date:      Mon, 26 May 2003 19:21:59 +0000
From:      Matt Smith <matt@forsetti.com>
To:        timmssimon@shaw.ca
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CVSup & ports collection
Message-ID:  <3ED26957.3010600@forsetti.com>
In-Reply-To: <63baa65008.6500863baa@shaw.ca>
References:  <63baa65008.6500863baa@shaw.ca>

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timmssimon@shaw.ca wrote:
> Hi,
> I have just tried to update my ports collection using CVSup.  I followed the instructions in the hand book and specified the following:
> 
> *default host=cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org
> *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> 
> src-all
> 
> ports-all
> 
> 
> The CVSup seems to run fine.  I am left, however, with a large number of files with ",v" appended to the end.  Is there some sort of merger procedure which I should follow to update my current files and to rename the new files to their name without the ",v"? 
> 
> 
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Check out that Handbook example again:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

Note the line(s) referring to "tag".

Hope that helps!
-Matt



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