KDE 3.3 ALPHA from CVS...what next? [CORRECTED REPLY]

[James Richard Tyrer]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Marc Heyvaert wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently compiling KDE 3.3.0 ALPHA and everything
>> is OK sofar :)
>>
>> I'm not very familiar with cvs though and I was
>> wondering what to do when new versions come out. I
>> understand that within the branch that I checked out I
>> can do updates with 'cvs up'; But what when the whole
>> branch is relabeled to another version, say ...BETA?
>> Is there a way to update, or does it mean a complete
>> new checkout of this branch. I ask because I don't
>> want to use to much bandwith if it can be avoided.
> 
> 
> You use the command:
> 
> cvs up -r<tag>
> 
> Where <tag> is what you want to update to.
> 
> When this version is released, the tag will be: KDE_3_3_BRANCH, but 
> until then you must use the tag for what you want to upgrade to.
> 
> You can check here:
> 
> http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/
> 
> at the bottom of the page to see which tags are available.  That is, when:
> 
>     KDE_3_3_0_ALPHA_2
> 
> is available, it will be listed there and you can use it.  If you wish 
> to follow the development of the new release, you can use:
> 
>     HEAD
> 
> But, this will not always compile and if it does, it will not always work.

Sorry that this might not have been clear -- corrected above.

The command for the current alpha release:

	cvs up -rKDE_3_3_0_ALPHA_1

and if you want to try HEAD:

	cvs up -rHEAD

--
JRT
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