ports sup tag (was: Re: )

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:20:47 +0200 (EET)
Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua> wrote:

> 
> Hello!
> 
> > Date:      Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:53:18 +0100
> > From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion at FreeBSD.org>
> > > > freshly updated ports tree on a 4.9 box is exactly the same as a
> > > > freshly updated ports tree on a 5.2 box.
> > >=20
> > >   Read the users email.  They're using specific tags, not "." so there are
> > > (or may be) some differences as time elapses.
> >
> > Users should not use tags for ports collection. It's
> > documentated also.
> 
>  Umm... What exactly is negative impact of using, for example,
> tag=RELEASE_5_2_0 for getting ports collection which came with 5.2-RELEASE
> via CVSup?

None. But if you want the snap-shot of 5.2R's ports why cvsup ? The
cvsup will get you nothing.

> Yes, I understand that I won't get fixes and improvements which
> came after ports tree freeze and creation of RELEASE_5_2_0 tag. I don't
> need them. What else should I be aware of? I've made it several times, then
> compared CVSupped ports tree against fresh one which came with 5.2-RELEASE -
> they are the same.

If you cvsup with 5_2_0 they will not be different until the end of world.


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