Re: Getting the latest pkgsrc.tar.gz

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

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