Re: release in cvsup supfile


--- "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey people,

I notice that in my supfile, I have this:

*default release=cvs tag=.

I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Should I change the tag to 5.4-RELEASE? I don't
want
ports that aren't going to work on 5.4. Is that a concern?

No, that's the way it should be. The Handbook is quite clear on this
point:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html#CVSUP-CONFIG-VERS






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