Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 20:15:57 -0700 (PDT) From: peter lageotakes <plageotakes@yahoo.com> To: Richard Schilling <rschi@rsmba.biz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup with tag=. on src and upgrading (in general) Message-ID: <20030614031557.94662.qmail@web14603.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030614020500.GI16068@foghorn.rsmba.biz>
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Thanks Richard, I kind of start to rethink about my original choice of tags based on: <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> But the quote below is says: Note: The ports tree does not have any tag associated with it, it is always CURRENT. I guess it means that it will just delete and install the ports collection no matter what the tag points too. I had to do a sanity check. I started second guessing myself. Pete --- Richard Schilling <rschi@rsmba.biz> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
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