On Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:27:05 -0400 Nick Holland <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote:
> On 06/07/15 20:14, bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I noticed on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc that > > there is information about preloading the tree, but does not mention > > that getting to -current requires -rHEAD at least the first time > > using 'cvs update' after pre-loading the tree with the source files > > from the last release. > > > > I discovered (the semi-hard way) that to get to -current, I needed > > -rHEAD to be specified in the command line. This is after > > pre-loading the tree, because the (src/sys/xenocara).tar.gz files > > all have a check out of OPENBSD_5_7 (or whatever -stable release), > > Where did you get these source files? Just checked the ones on the > mirrors, they do not have such a tag on them. I'll check the > CDs..um...not tonight. > > I would much prefer using the -A option over -rHEAD, as your goal is > to clear and ignore any release tags. I am quite certain the ones I got were from the ftp mirror. I've had them for almost a month, but I recall getting them from ftp.iinet.net.au. Now that you mention it, this is actually the first time I've encountered such a thing while updating my copy of the source tree to -current; I've never had to do this with tarballs of earlier releases. > > > frozen > > to that point at the time of releasing. Running "cvs up" simply > > gets me to the latest -stable. > > which...isn't a bad default, really (assuming the CDs shipped as you > indicated) I am in some agreement with this; it would certainly make it easier not having to change the "-rOPENBSD_x_x" option in the .cvsrc every time you upgrade. > > My .cvsrc (between the hyphen lines): > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > # $OpenBSD: dot.cvsrc,v 1.1 2013/04/01 16:55:26 espie Exp $ > > # > > cvs -q -danon...@anoncvs.au.openbsd.org:/cvs > > diff -up > > update -Pd > > for your purposes, I'd make that -PAd to clear the release tag. > Sounds like a plan to me. > > checkout -P > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > It seems the (src/sys/xenocara).tar.gz files are not > > in the "snapshots" directory of any of the FTP mirrors I've seen. > > correct. > This would wrongly imply that "This tar file was used to build these > snapshots", and that would be wrong. And...if you want to download > the entire -current source tree, just do it with cvs(1). True. I've always just been preloading the tree with the release and running "cvs update" anyway. > > > Should this be mentioned in the documentation or is it just me? > > 5.1, under "Snapshots" kinda covers this, I think. > > Nick. > No mention of the sort of thing I was talking about over there; just a description of -release, -current, -stable. Anyway, thanks for the information. It's given me some food for thought.
