Subject: Re: Getting the latest pkgsrc.tar.gz
To: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakheshster@gmail.com>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 05/29/2006 12:36:50
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 02:20:39PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> If this is the document you are referring to, then I have one
> suggestion. In the section "Source distribution", it says "You can
> download the pkgsrc tarball or checkout the latest sources using
> AnonCVS:
>
> # cvs checkout -rpkgsrc-2006Q1 pkgsrc"
>
> This isn't entirely true, is it? I mean, *latest sources* would mean
> "# cvs checkout pkgsrc" right? Not 2006-Q1 but -current itself ... ?
The above command gives you the latest source on the pkgsrc-2006Q1 branch.
It's not "older" than -current, it's just a different branch in CVS, which
happens to be more conservative in updates. :-)
Geert