Please ignore/delete this. The SMTP server I was using was initially blocked, and thanks to the list owner, it is now fixed. As a result, this message may have been backlocked and sent.
It is essentially a duplicate of another message, which has received reasonable replies. On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 04:04:57 +1000 bytevolc...@safe-mail.net wrote: > 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.
