From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 11:25:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5594D16A4CE for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:25:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mhub-m5.tc.umn.edu (mhub-m5.tc.umn.edu [160.94.23.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19F6143D2D for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:25:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beno0028@umn.edu) Received: from fantasy.software.umn.edu (fantasy.software.umn.edu [128.101.65.48]) by mhub-m5.tc.umn.edu with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:25:34 -0600 (CST) X-Umn-Remote-Mta: [N] fantasy.software.umn.edu #+LO Received: (from nobody@localhost) by fantasy.software.umn.edu (8.12.9/8.12.8) id i2GJPXxf006323; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:25:33 -0600 Message-Id: <200403161925.i2GJPXxf006323@fantasy.software.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:25:33 CST From: "Scott K. Benolkin" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Tick-Nemesis: American Maid X-remote-user-ip: 199.169.240.132 Subject: dating a ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:25:50 -0000 For CVSuping a ports tree (e.g., the ports distribution from a release CD) for the first time (i.e., no preexisting checkouts file), section 4.3 of Salvo Bartolotta's "CVSup Advanced Points" article (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/cvsup-advanced/article .html) recommends, "you should specify a date as close as possible to that of `shipping' of your ports tree." It's easy enough to do this roughly, but I'm curious if anyone knows an "official" (or at least surefire) way to easily and precisely determine the "shipping" date of a ports tree (realizing that the "date" keyword will specify a time down to the second). I'm not trying to say this is essential, but if there's a best practice, I'd like to know. Please CC to my address. Thank you for your time and knowledge/cleverness. Scott -- "Frederick, is God dead?" --Sojourner Truth