Hello all, I noticed on http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc that there is information about preloading the tree, but does not mention that getting to -current requires -rHEAD at least the first time using 'cvs update' after pre-loading the tree with the source files from the last release.
I discovered (the semi-hard way) that to get to -current, you need -rHEAD to be specified in the command line. This is after pre-loading the tree, because the (src/sys/xenocara).tar.gz files all have a check out of OPENBSD_5_7 (or whatever -stable release), frozen to that point at the time of releasing. Running "cvs up" simply gets me to the latest -stable. My .cvsrc (between the hyphen lines): ----------------------------------------------------------------------- # $OpenBSD: dot.cvsrc,v 1.1 2013/04/01 16:55:26 espie Exp $ # cvs -q -danon...@anoncvs.au.openbsd.org:/cvs diff -up update -Pd checkout -P ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It seems the (src/sys/xenocara).tar.gz files are not in the "snapshots" directory of any of the FTP mirrors I've seen. I am willing to write a patch for this, but I want to ensure: 1. I am not missing anything hidden somewhere in another FAQ. 2. There are no mirrors which have the (src/sys/xenocara).tar.gz files in their /pub/OpenBSD/snapshots directory. 3. That there is no other CVS command magic that I have missed, that may have been covered by the FAQ. 4. That there are no other reasons not to document this information. I will appreciate input from users and devs alike.
