--- On Tue, 12/20/11, James Hartley <jjhart...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Hartley <jjhart...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Proper way to update system + ports?
> To: "James Hozier" <guitars...@yahoo.com>
> Cc: misc@openbsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 12:36 AM
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:19 PM,
> James Hozier <guitars...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > > --- On Mon, 12/19/11, Jeremie
> Courreges-Anglas
> > > <jca+m...@wxcvbn.org>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > So -current Ports are not compatible with
> -stable
> > > Ports, right?
> > > > Or am I wrong in presuming this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Per FAQ 15.4.1:
> > >
> > > Do NOT check out a -current ports tree and expect
> it to
> > > work on a -release
> > > or -stable system.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > How do I know if I have checked out the -current ports
> tree or
> > the -stable ports tree?
> >
>
> Study FAQ 5.3.3.  If no tagname was explicitly
> provided in the CSV command
> used, then the head of the CVS tree (in this case -current)
> was downloaded.
>
>

So in my case, the command I used:
# cvs -d$CVSROOT checkout -rOPENBSD_5_0 -P src ports

included the -rOPENBSD_5_0 tag (-r) which indicates the -stable tree,
right? And it applied to both src and ports so that I checked out
the -stable version of both src and ports?

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