Re: ognus

[Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net>]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> Footnotes: 
> [1]  Someone pointed out that using CVS to retrieve a specific tagged
> release make sense, also for end-users.

Yes, iff it's an operation identical to one of:

        1. grab compressed tar file from ftp/www archive
           extract it
           
or

        1. grab compressed tar file from ftp/www archive
           extract it
        2. grab patches relevant to this tar file 
           from ftp/www archive
           extract and apply them
        
Both are done fairly commonly, and in CVS land one could
have various mechanisms for supporting both
simultaneously.  For example:

(for the first option)  cvs co -P -rgnus-5.8.7_release
(for the second option) cvs co -P -rgnus-5.8.7_patched

with a "DO NOT EVER TOUCH" understanding about the first tag above.

"cvs co -P" with no tag at all should always result in the
latest development sources, and may catch fire, explode,
leak battery acid, eat your mail, send spam, or whatnot.
You have been warned.

When there is consensus among the people actually
supporting CVS Gnus about the way to go, someone should kindly
figure out how to make this clear on http://www.gnus.org/distribution/

        Sean.