From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 10:17: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CED37BB1D for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 10:16:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from parish.my.domain ([62.253.88.87]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000714171650.WKSF26680.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@parish.my.domain>; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:16:50 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA01806; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:16:46 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 18:16:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Doug Barton Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem cvsup'ing gnats Message-ID: <20000714181645.C237@parish> References: <20000712191846.K237@parish> <396D9452.BEC5DB5C@gorean.org> <20000713175243.A237@parish> <396EC61A.11068F1B@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <396EC61A.11068F1B@gorean.org>; from DougB@gorean.org on Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:49:46AM -0700 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 12:49:46AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Mark Ovens wrote: > > > > I have no idea what the committer's guide says, but here is the cvsup file > > > I've used for years. The first set of entries is for the cvs repo files, > > > but it does slurp down the gnats files as well. Oddly enough, this > > > information is in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/gnats-supfile. > > > > > > > Which info exactly? It makes no mention of tags (except implicitly I > > suppose, by virtue of the fact that there's no tag= entry). > > So how big of a stick would you like us to hit you with? :) Seriously... > why would someone create an example supfile that A) didn't work, or B) > contained more information than was necessary to make it work? > > > > *default release=current > > > gnats > > > > > > > How does all this work without a tag? > > The question you really want to ask yourself is, what do the tags mean, > and why _would_ you specify a tag to slurp the gnats files? > The answer to both your questions (I know you posed 3, but I don't want hitting with a stick) is that I (mis)understood that if there was no ``tag='' entry then ``tag=.'' was the default, i.e. src-all would get you -current. OK, I'll go and RTFM, but looking back at your supfile that you posted in an earlier message I see no tags at all, and given that ``tag=.'' doesn't work for gnats, I can only come to the conclusion that the *implied* tag is different for each collection. > Doug -- If I buy a copy of WinDelete, and it doesn't delete Windows, am I entitled to my money back? ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message