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David Howland <metalliqaz@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I waited forever for the cvs checkout of the entire netbsd-1-6 branch, bu=
t i
> did get the whole thing.  I plan on updating everything, since I missed t=
he
> last 20 serurity updates or so.  I have NetBSD 1.6 (1.6.0 to be clear)
>=20
> the next day, i decided to try the update procedure, to see how it worked.
>=20
> I followed the directions here:
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/updating.html
>=20
> I ran the command "cvs update -dP" and let it go for a ways before i
> realized I may have screwed up.  I want the latest stable branch,
> not -current.  but wouldnt this command get -current?  shouldnt I add "-r
> netbsd-1-6" ?

If the source tree in which you started the 'cvs update -dP' command
contained the sources from a branch, then that branch will be updated.
If there were no sources or the sources were not on a branch, then you
got head.

Take a look at CVS/Entries -- if there are entries in there that end in=20

//Tnetbsd-1-6

or similar, then you got the 1.6 branch.

-Jan

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DON'T PANIC!

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