From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 16 16:15:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12769 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:15:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pc196s233r1.jancomulti.com (pc196s233r1.jancomulti.com [195.139.233.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12758 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 16:15:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paalsom@ifi.uio.no) Received: from ifi.uio.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pc196s233r1.jancomulti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA07370; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:14:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from paalsom@ifi.uio.no) Message-ID: <3650BFFD.F80B8234@ifi.uio.no> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 01:14:53 +0100 From: "Pål Sommerhein" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Hunt CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble using cvs References: <365094C5.333284C1@ifi.uio.no> <19981116152535.B8035@wopr.caltech.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Hunt wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 10:10:29PM +0100, Pål Sommerhein wrote: > > > # cvs co -r RELENG_2_2_7_RELEASE ports 2>&1 | tee /var/tmp/co.ports.log > > The release tags for the Ports Collection are different than those > for the source tree. > > Use RELEASE_2_2_7 instead. > > To see what tags have been placed on a file, use "cvs log". For > example, try "cvs log INDEX" in /usr/ports. > > -- > Matthew Hunt * Science rules. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/pgp.key for PGP public key 0x67203349. Thank you! Now it worked really nice - I could just check out a particular directory( I tried ports/math/octave ). I just wonder, I have moved the old ports directory to /usr/ports-old. Is it safe to just delete it? So long, Pål To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message