[Xastir] install question

[Tom Russo]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 09:44:00AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <curt.we7u at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Rob Neece wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the help, Curt.  Based on your advice, I'm trying to use cvs to 
> > install the release version, which should be 2.0.1.
> 
> > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at xastir.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xastir co -r RELEASE xastir
> 
> Get rid of the "-r RELEASE" portion if you're after 2.0.1 (CVS HEAD
> version).  The -r option is also "sticky", so you'll either need to
> delete the stuff you check out already including "." files there, or
> you'll need to use "-r HEAD" to change the sticky tag so that it
> always goes for the latest again.

The way to clear sticky tags is:

  cvs update -A

This will clear all sticky tags and update to HEAD.  It should not be 
necessary to delete a previous checkout, even one mistakenly made with a 
-r <tag> option.

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