Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 19:05:00 -0700 From: Richard Schilling <rschi@rsmba.biz> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup with tag=. on src and upgrading (in general) Message-ID: <20030614020500.GI16068@foghorn.rsmba.biz> In-Reply-To: <200306132105.45620.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>; from ianjhart@ntlworld.com on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 13:05:45 -0700 References: <20030613180849.GE12049@foghorn.rsmba.biz> <200306132105.45620.ianjhart@ntlworld.com>
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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: <quote> 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, </quote> followed by this . . . <quote> 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. </quote> 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
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