Getting latest files with cvsweb for a given tag

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Sat Jan 14 09:02:43 PST 2006


On 14 Jan 2006, at 01:42, RW wrote:

> Is there a cvsweb URL that will give me the latest version of a  
> given file,
> given a specific tag? ie  without specifying a explicit revision.
>
> What I am trying to do is write a script that will download the  
> latest version
> of  src/sys/conf/newvers.sh for RELENG_6_0, so it can parse out the  
> version
> information and compare it with the output of uname -r.

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/conf/ 
newvers.sh?rev=RELENG_6_0

It's probably easier to use anonymous CVS, although  
anoncvs.FreeBSD.org doesn't seem to be carrying our tree at the moment.

Ceri
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