docs/75543: Update to articles/cvsup-advanced

Marius Nuennerich marius.nuennerich at gmx.net
Mon Dec 27 15:20:26 UTC 2004


>Number:         75543
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Update to articles/cvsup-advanced
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Dec 27 15:20:25 GMT 2004
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>Originator:     Marius  Nuennerich
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE i386
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System: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #3: Mon Dec 27 14:48:25 CET 2004


>Description:


Update to the last paragraph. Original author is informed.


>How-To-Repeat:





>Fix:


--- article.diff begins here ---
--- article.sgml.bak	Fri Dec 17 01:10:04 2004
+++ article.sgml	Fri Dec 17 01:15:30 2004
@@ -251,14 +251,19 @@
        <sect2>
          <title>Updating your ports collection for the first time</title>
 
-         <para>Since ports are tagged <quote>.</quote> (ie -CURRENT), you can 
-	   correctly <quote>sync</quote> them for the first time by adding the date 
-	   keyword (cf &man.cvsup.1; for the exact format): you should 
-	   specify a date as close as possible to that of <quote>shipping</quote> of 
-	   your ports tree. After <command>cvsup</command> has correctly created the ports 
+	 <para>Since ports are normally tagged <quote>.</quote> (ie -CURRENT), you can 
+	   correctly <quote>sync</quote> them for the first time by using the tag 
+	   with which your ports were shipped. E.g., if you have installed the ports
+	   collection from a 5.3-RELEASE Disk, you will use
+	   <programlisting>ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_3_0 list=cvs:.</programlisting>
+	   (which is tantamount to writing just
+	   <programlisting>ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_3_0</programlisting> 	
+	   and subsequently renaming the checkouts file.)
+	   After <command>cvsup</command> has correctly created the ports 
 	   checkouts file, which is precisely the goal of this first 
-	   special sync operation, the date field must be removed;
-           all subsequent updates will be carried out smoothly.</para>
+	   special sync operation, the normal <quote>.</quote> tag can be used
+	   and the list field must be removed;
+	   all subsequent updates will be carried out smoothly.</para>
 
          <para>If you have been reading the apparently nit-picking 
 	   remarks in these sections, you will probably have recognized 
--- article.diff ends here ---



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