On Sat, 11 Apr 2015 10:27:19 +0200 Johan Mellberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to start following -stable so I have read > http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html and > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc as well as looking through > the mailing list archives > â for cvs from preloaded sourceâ > . > > I thought that I'd preload the sources so downloaded all of sys, src, ports > and xenocara and put them in /usr as per instructions. > > No problem, but I am left with one unclear issue > â (complete cvs noob). On http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html > â â > it says > > "NOTE: If you are updating a source tree that you initially fetched from a > different server, or from a CD, you must add the -d [cvsroot] option to cvs. > > # cd /usr/src > # cvs -d [email protected]:/cvs -q up -Pd" > > âI do not understand what version I then end up with, because on â > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc > â and above the quoted section it says to add -rOPENBSD_5_6 to get -stable > (for 5.6) when checking out from scratch. But I am not sure sinceâ this is > the only example for updating preloaded files. IF I run that there is > updating of course, but there's no "Tag" that tells me if it is HEAD or > whatever. If I add -rOPENBSD_5_6 I get the Tag file of course but what > version do I get without it?!? And how should I update the next time? > > Thanks/Johan >
the version you get without any tag is -current, the latest version, lagging by only a few hours at most from what the devs commit, depending on the server.
