How to download cvs files for Beta 3

sam sam.wun at authtec.net
Sun Sep 12 07:34:54 PDT 2004


Scott Long wrote:

> sam wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found a tag for downloading the 5.3 Current (not 6.0) with the 
>> following cvsup-sup file definition:
>>
>> *default host=cvsup.ca.freebsd.org
>> *default base=/usr
>> *default prefix=/bdata/ncvs
>> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>>
>> but this is only download the source. How can I download the cvs 
>> file? those files ended with ",v". I need to use it to execute "make 
>> release ..."
>>
>> Thanks
>> sam
>
>
> Remove the 'tag=RELENG_5' part completely.  You will then get a copy of
> the entire repository that covers all branches, not just RELENG_5.
>
> Scott
>
>
Thanks, I got it. After download the src, I used cvs src -r RELENG_5 src 
to extract 5.3 current instead of 6.0 by default.

Thanks
sam


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