Re: Getting Started with cvsup for 3.0

[TripleDES <TripleDES@eSlack.org>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:46:47 -0500 (EST)
Woodchuck <djv@bedford.net> wrote:

> I am interested in keeping updated with 3.0 [recently installed],
> after doing so with FreeBSD using cvsup.
> 
> My question relates to two things:  tags and the so-called "base"
> parameter.
> 
> In this trial supfile:
> 
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
> # Defaults that apply to all the collections
> *default host=cvsup.usa.openbsd.org
> *default base=/var
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs
> *default delete use-rel-suffix compress
> 
> # Source Collection.
> OpenBSD-src tag=.
>  ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 	... nothing seems to appear under /var.  Should something?
> In a directory named something?  /var/CVS?
> 
> 
> Other question.  There does not seem to be one single list of tags.
> 
> People speak of "-current" and "-stable"; the latter was tracked with
> a RELENG_xxx  tag on FreeBSD.  Hah, hah it is likewise so recommended
> in the cvsup manpage on OpenBSD.  Using RELENG_3_0 for a tag results
> in the same thing as cd /usr; rm -fr src.
> 
> What does the "." get me?  Is there some way to query cvs to discover
> the tags for each collection?  their meaning?
> 
> I suppose there is a third question:  using /cvs for the default prefix
> will get not just patches, deletions and checkouts of files, but
> the actual cvs deltas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

Here you are a mini-doc for cvsup in OpenBSD-3.0, it's spanish, but there are examples.

http://www.eldemonio.org/docs/openbsd/cvsup.html

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