From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 07:19:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA18822 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:19:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (word.smith.net.au [202.0.75.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA18817 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 07:19:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA04104; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:46:20 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709251416.XAA04104@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Sep 1997 22:22:46 +0930." <19970925222246.03372@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:46:17 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 07:45:04PM +0930, Mike Smith wrote: > >> I have the CVS tree here on my system, and I know we've just done a > >> snap, but I see nothing in the tree to help me determine where, when > >> or what it is. What do I need to do? > > > > cvs co -D src, then build the release as usual. Snaps aren't > > tagged, as this'd fill the tree with more junk and greatly increase the > > CTM and CVSup traffic. > > Sure. But to repeat the question: > > I see nothing in the tree to help me determine where, when or what > it is. > > How do I find it out? You don't. Due to the nature of the distributed CVS repository, there is a window where even the exact time of checkout for the snapshot build might leave you out of sync. The only way around this would be for the snap to be built from a tree directly checked out from the master repository. Jordan does this for the for-CDROM versions, I think. mike