> I don't sup into my CVS tree...I sup into a `clean' area (pure -current), 
> and then `cvs import' automagically, with a tag automatically generated 
> with the convention `current-month_day_year'.  I then do the following 
> (well, this is what I'll do today...)

I do something similar to maintain my own private tree, here at CMU.
I probably update on the order of once a week or so.

basically:

	get the tar balls of the current src (if you see tarballs made
		midweek, when they were made correctly the previous
		weekend, that's a hint that they might be a 'stable'
		system...  8-)

	untar them locally.

	from the top: cvs import -m "from NetBSD-current" -I"! " \
		-I. -I.. -ICVS src NetBSD NetBSD-YYMMDD

	blow away the tar files and the tree extracted from them.

	clean up the conflicts (for me, there can be hundreds,
		depending on what i've been up to... 8-)

	blow away the conflict-merge tree.

this only requires one transient copy of the source (either the
untarred copy, or the merge-in-progress copy), in addition to
what i already have elsewhere on my disks...


chris