ports sup tag (was: Re: )

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:31:51 +0000
Pete French <petefrench at keithprowse.com> wrote:

> > None. But if you want the snap-shot of 5.2R's ports why cvsup ? The
> > cvsup will get you nothing.
> 
> That rather depends on what you are cvsupping from. I had 4.9 ports tree,
> I wanted 5.2 ports tree. I thought cvs might be a reasonable way to
> get it!

There is no such a thing as "4.9 ports tree"  or "5.2 ports tree". Some
ports might build / don't on 4.9 / 5.2, or that they dependences,
optimisation, etc. might differ if they are build on, lets say 5.2
rather that 4.9. If you cp -R /usr/ports from a 4.9 machine to a 5.2
machine they will just work, as they are *the same*. The only
difference: on 4.x it is used /usr/ports/INDEX rather that
/usr/ports/INDEX-5 on 5.x

The only tag for cvsup-ping ports should be HEAD (.) unless you have a
very special requirement to use only ports tagged for a specific
release, from which the packages for that release where build, in which
case you will use the release name, eg. 4_9_0.

> wish I'd never mentioned it now...
> 
> -pcf.


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