[support] CVS Update to my Drupal install didn't work

[Shai Gluskin]

Jason and others,

Thank you so much,

I've followed my plan, reinforced by your "yes" comments.

The only thing that surprised me a bit is that what was installed was
5.8-dev, not 5.7.

There isn't anything unstable or experimental about 5.8-dev, is there?

My goals are to:
1. use CVS for more convenient updating
2. use the latest stable version Drupal that has the modules I need.

I hope these goals are not incompatible.

thanks again for the reassurance,

Shai

On 2/2/08, Jason Flatt <drupal at oadaeh.net> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, February 2 2008 7:51:07 pm Shai Gluskin wrote:
> > Drupalers,
> >
> > I'm new to using CVS for checking out Drupal. I just tried to update an
> > installation that I had installed via a CVS checkout.
> >
> > Via the command line, and in the drupal directory, I typed:
> > cvs update -dP
> >
> > I was pleased to see some messages from the terminal that led me to
> believe
> > it was a successful update. But after it was done, my site was still 5.3
> ,
> > like it was before the update.
> >
> > Based on my limited knowledge of CVS, I think the problem might have
> been
> > with my original CVS command, which was:
> >
> > cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r
> > DRUPAL-5-3 drupal
> >
> >
> > Is this essentially impossible to update since I explicitly wrote 5-3?
>
> You could go into each CVS directory and edit each Tag file to remove
> the "-3", but I'm not actually sure that would work, and there are a lot
> of
> them.
>
> > Should I just have written Drupal-5 to get the latest version of the
> Drupal
> > 5 branch which would then be updatable with the cvs update command?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Do I need to start over with a fresh CVS checkout?
>
> That's probably the best way to go.
>
> > Would this be the correct command:
> >
> > cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous at cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal co -r
> > DRUPAL-5 drupal
>
> Yes.
>
> > Thanks for the help.
> >
> > Shai
> > content2zero <http://content2zero.com>
>
>
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