Re: CVSup & ports collection

From: Matt Smith (matt_at_forsetti.com)
Date: 05/26/03

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    timmssimon@shaw.ca wrote:
    > Hi,
    > I have just tried to update my ports collection using CVSup. I followed the instructions in the hand book and specified the following:
    >
    > *default host=cvsup.ca.FreeBSD.org
    > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup
    > *default prefix=/usr
    > *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
    >
    > src-all
    >
    > ports-all
    >
    >
    > The CVSup seems to run fine. I am left, however, with a large number of files with ",v" appended to the end. Is there some sort of merger procedure which I should follow to update my current files and to rename the new files to their name without the ",v"?
    >
    >
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    Check out that Handbook example again:
    http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html

    Note the line(s) referring to "tag".

    Hope that helps!
    -Matt

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