Re: Getting the latest pkgsrc.tar.gz

["Rakhesh Sasidharan" <rakheshster%gmail.com@localhost>]

> If you have new boxes running the latest stuff that you want the latest
> version of pkgsrc, you could keep it in /usr/pkgsrc-current and if you
> have a couple of older boxes that are stable and shouldn't really be
> touched (other than getting stuff out of pkgsrc), you could keep that
> in /usr/pkgsrc-2005Q3 (should that be the branch you checked out).  You
> could keep them on a central file-server and shared out via NFS, etc.

Thanks Michael. So basically I can have multiple copies of the pkgsrc
tree (under /usr/pkgsrc, /usr/pkgsrc-2005Q3, and so on) all got thru
CVS. How important is the pkgsrc  pathname btw? Can I have my pkgsrc
at some other location like say /mnt/free/pkgsrc (/mnt/free being a
partition I have with lots of free space) and things will still work
fine right?

> When you work with CVS, it keeps some state and meta info in CVS
> subdirs, ie:
>
> $ ls -l /usr/pkgsrc/www/apache/CVS
> total 4
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 480 Apr 10 11:53 Entries
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  18 Apr  4 14:24 Repository
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  45 Apr  4 14:24 Root
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  15 May  8 15:43 Tag
>
> This last set of files is what CVS uses to determine what you've got in
> comparison to what is in the CVS repository and send you just what you
> need (what's been updated/changed) since the last update/checkout.

Great! I see that I already have these files. I used to wonder what
they are about. Now I know. Thanks. :)

Rakhesh