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         <title>Updating your ports collection for the first time</title>
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         <title>Updating your ports collection for the first time</title>
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         <para>Since ports are tagged <quote>.</quote> (ie -CURRENT), you can 
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	 <para>Since ports are normally tagged <quote>.</quote> (ie -CURRENT), you can 
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	   correctly <quote>sync</quote> them for the first time by adding the date 
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	   correctly <quote>sync</quote> them for the first time by using the tag 
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	   keyword (cf &man.cvsup.1; for the exact format): you should 
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	   with which your ports were shipped. E.g., if you have installed the ports
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	   specify a date as close as possible to that of <quote>shipping</quote> of 
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	   collection from a 5.3-RELEASE Disk, you will use
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	   your ports tree. After <command>cvsup</command> has correctly created the ports 
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	   <programlisting>ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_3_0 list=cvs:.</programlisting>
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	   (which is tantamount to writing just
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	   <programlisting>ports-all tag=RELEASE_5_3_0</programlisting> 	
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	   and subsequently renaming the checkouts file.)
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	   After <command>cvsup</command> has correctly created the ports 
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	   checkouts file, which is precisely the goal of this first 
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	   checkouts file, which is precisely the goal of this first 
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	   special sync operation, the date field must be removed;
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	   special sync operation, the normal <quote>.</quote> tag can be used
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           all subsequent updates will be carried out smoothly.</para>
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	   and the list field must be removed;
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	   all subsequent updates will be carried out smoothly.</para>
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         <para>If you have been reading the apparently nit-picking 
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         <para>If you have been reading the apparently nit-picking 
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	   remarks in these sections, you will probably have recognized 
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	   remarks in these sections, you will probably have recognized 

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