Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release

[Chris]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Tom Trelvik wrote:

> Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote:
>> *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org
>> *default base=/var/db
>> *default prefix=/usr
>> *default release=cvs tag=.
>> *default delete use-rel-suffix
>> 
>> src-all
>
> 	I don't think you want "tag=." as the default.  That would put you 
> the most current sources for the OS, which may have plenty of transient 
> issues you don't want to have to deal with.
>
> 	I use the following supfile regularly.  You can see that I set the 
> default tag to RELENG_5_3 which is basically the original release of 5.3 plus 
> security updates 
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html).  I 
> do that because these are servers that I try to keep as stable as possible. 
> For a personal system, you may prefer to use RELENG_5 to get something more 
> up to date, without being the bleeding edge of CVS updates.  You can also see 
> that I specify a different tag to grab for ports, so that I can get the 
> updates on them.
>
> *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org
> *default base=/var/db
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3
> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> *default compress
> src-all
> ports-all tag=.
>
> Good luck,
>

If I'm not mistaken, he did mention the ports supfile. What I gave him 
(assuming he only wants one supfile for ports, and one for src) is simply 
that.

It's a very basic, to the point supfile. He needs nothing more then what I 
posted. The above reflects (to me atleast) the makings of a supfile for 
gathering the src tree.

Perhaps I read him wrong, perhaps I took for granted he only wanted a 
ports supfile. If I'm right, then what I gave him is all he needs. He does 
not need to be muddied with thigs that have zero to do with supping the 
ports tree.


Best regards,
Chris

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