Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:05:45 -0700 From: sabine225@home.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup is overkill for me Message-ID: <D004E282-BF7E-11D5-B40C-0050E4050F42@home.com> In-Reply-To: <010b01c15381$acd2d770$0200000a@paeps.cx>
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On Friday, October 12, 2001, at 05:54 PM, Philip Paeps wrote: > It's not *that* difficult, is it? It's horrendous. I don't want CURRENT I want STABLE, STABLE sounds better. But all the docs say no problem just say tag=something_from_a_list_somewhere_that_no_one_seems_to_tell_you_where_it_is Tell me is it, "RELENG_4" ? AND docs say if you make any kind of a typo in this tag=make_a_wild_guess it will delete all the files that don't match your system. Nice. Yea, it's probably not that tough, it just that the documentation blows. YOU tell me this wasn't written by mutants: Quote from: "http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-CONFIG-FILES" "Which version(s) of them do you want? With CVSup, you can receive virtually any version of the sources that ever existed. That is possible because the cvsupd server works directly from the CVS repository, which contains all of the versions. You specify which one of them you want using the tag= and date= value fields. Warning: Be very careful to specify any tag= fields correctly. Some tags are valid only for certain collections of files. If you specify an incorrect or misspelled tag, CVSup will delete files which you probably do not want deleted. In particular, use only tag=. for the ports-* collections. The tag= field names a symbolic tag in the repository. There are two kinds of tags, revision tags and branch tags. A revision tag refers to a specific revision. Its meaning stays the same from day to day. A branch tag, on the other hand, refers to the latest revision on a given line of development, at any given time. Because a branch tag does not refer to a specific revision, it may mean something different tomorrow than it means today." My Mac OS X politely says every Sunday afternoon, "We have an update of xxx.app, would you like to install it now?" I say, "Yes, thank you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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