Cannot use cvsup with 5.3-release

[Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai]

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Tom Trelvik wrote:

> Tetsuji "Maverick" Rai wrote:
>
>> *default host=cvsup.jp.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default
>> prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete
>> use-rel-suffix
>>
>> src-all
>
>
> I don't think you want "tag=." as the default.  That would put you
> the most current sources for the OS, which may have plenty of
> transient issues you don't want to have to deal with.
>
> I use the following supfile regularly.  You can see that I set the
> default tag to RELENG_5_3 which is basically the original release
> of 5.3 plus security updates
> (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html).
>  I do that because these are servers that I try to keep as stable
> as possible.  For a personal system, you may prefer to use RELENG_5
> to get something more up to date, without being the bleeding edge
> of CVS updates.  You can also see that I specify a different tag to
>  grab for ports, so that I can get the updates on them.
>
> *default host=cvsup12.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default
> prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3 *default delete
> use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Tom ____________

Thanks all.   It's simpler than I expected!!  I got it to work!!!

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