Querying a cvsup server

[Warren Block]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2012, Lowell Gilbert wrote:

> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:
>
>> Is there a way to query one of the FreeBSD cvsup mirrors, something
>> like 'svn list -v svn:...' (only with cvs or csup)?  I'm looking to
>> find the revision or date of a file.
>
> Anonymous CVS is probably the best approach for you.
> It's covered in the Handbook.

The goal is to check arbitrary files on FreeBSD cvsup servers to see if 
they are up to date.  AFAIK, there are only a couple of anoncvs servers 
and the normal cvsupN.freebsd.org servers don't do that.