cvups with 5.3 stable

[Lars Eighner]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 cscott at speakeasy.net wrote:

> Has anyone got cvsup to sucessfully update their ports collection?
> When I run cvsup, with tag=RELENG_5_3, cvsup just deletes
> everything in /usr/ports. I replaced the ports collection with the
> full port tarball from the ports collection search page. Cvsup
> deletes that as well. I am using the ports-supfile from examples,
> and have only change the cvsup host. Has anyone else experience
> this?

NEVER use any tag for ports except .
It will always delete the whole tree if you use any tag other
than .
Ports do *not* come in releases, and since RELENG_5_3 is not .
using it will always delete the whole tree.

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