From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 13 19:07:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D178637B401 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:07:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rsmba.biz (evrtwa1-ar19-4-41-130-089.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.41.130.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BED3043F75 for ; Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:07:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rschi@rsmba.biz) Received: (qmail 16182 invoked from network); 14 Jun 2003 02:05:00 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foghorn.rsmba.biz) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Jun 2003 02:05:00 -0000 Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:05:00 -0700 From: Richard Schilling To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030614020500.GI16068@foghorn.rsmba.biz> References: <20030613180849.GE12049@foghorn.rsmba.biz> <200306132105.45620.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200306132105.45620.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>; from ianjhart@ntlworld.com on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 13:05:45 -0700 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.4.4 Lines: 41 Subject: Re: cvsup with tag=. on src and upgrading (in general) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 02:07:35 -0000 Thanks for all the help folks. The documentation does come up a bit shy on clarity (no offense) - found myself guessing a bit . . . I know that tag=. specifies the HEAD node, but I was a bit confused by the documentation. It does say that *default tag=. will retreive FreeBSD-CURRENT, and when tag and date are absent you get the RCS files. My bad I guess. But, the documentation confused me with this: For our example, we wish to receive FreeBSD-CURRENT. We add this line at the beginning of our supfile: *default tag=. There is an important special case that comes into play if you specify neither a tag= field nor a date= field. In that case, you receive the actual RCS files directly from the server's CVS repository, followed by this . . . Section A.6 contains branch tags that users might be interested in. When specifying a tag in CVSup's configuration file, it must be preceded with tag= (RELENG_4 will become tag=RELENG_4). Keep in mind that only the tag=. is relevant for the ports collection. So, I am not sure what tag=. fetches when run on src-all. It it invalid (unpredictable) or actually FreeBSD-CURRENT? I don't have the example cvsup files in /usr/share/examples/cvsup. Did I not install a port? --Richard Schilling