retrieving glibc sources by date

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Sun, 2004-07-04 21:25:13 -0700, Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
wrote in message <40E8D829.50702@kegel.com>:

> #!/bin/sh
> # Script to retrieve glibc source via CVS as of a certain date
> # Includes all addons (e.g., both linuxthreads and NPTL)
> # Usage: grab.sh YYYYMMDD
> # Creates glibc-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz
> mkdir temp.$$
> cd temp.$$
> mkdir CVS
> echo ":pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/glibc" > CVS/Root
> cvs co -D$1 libc
> mv libc glibc-$1
> tar --exclude CVS -czf ../glibc-$1.tar.gz glibc-$1
> cd ..
> rm -rf temp.$$

Generally, I'd suggest using either -D or -rHEAD ...

MfG, JBG

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