Stupid cvsup questions

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:34:55 -0500
Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> wrote:

> At 11:41 PM +0200 12/15/03, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >I have 2 identical (copy/paste) ports-supfiles on two machines:
> >
> >it# grep -v '#' /etc/ports-supfile
> >*default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org
> >*default base=/usr
> >*default prefix=/usr
> >*default release=cvs tag=.
> >*default delete use-rel-suffix
> >*default compress
> >ports-all
> 
> 
> >I run it like:
> ># cvsup -g /etc/ports-supfile on both machines.
> >
> >The stupid question:
> >why on the second I have the `,v' suffix ?
> >
> >Is there an env variable or something ?
> 
> I don't think so.  Did you try copying the file from one
> machine to the other, and doing a direct diff? 

Copy /paste in ssh.

> It looks
> like the 'tag=.' is being ignored for some reason.
> 
> I suspect you have tried that, but it's hard to imagine
> why the two machines would be different.  

One is 4.7 the other 5.1 but cvsup versions are the same.

> I'd also note
> that your grep command shouldn't ignore lines that have
> a '#' that is anywhere in the line.  Only ignore lines
> where there is nothing interesting before the '#'.  Eg:
> 
>     grep -v '^ *#'

Yup.

> I don't know what else to suggest.  From what you describe
> in your message, both hosts should be getting the same set
> of files.


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