How to CVS checkout best release of all modules of a given Drupal version [unresolved]

Adapted from my comments at mroswell's question about downloading all Drupal 5 modules with CVS on the Drupal Groups site. (The person who would know if anyone would, dww, says there's not a solution yet.)

Command to check out all contributed modules with a given branch tag. The name of the directory you want to check out into follows the "-d" and can be any name you want. I gave it such an odd name (alld5modules) to try to emphasize that fact :-P

cvs -z6 -d:pserver:anonymous:anonymous@cvs.drupal.org:/cvs/drupal-contrib checkout -r DRUPAL-5 -d alld5modules contributions/modules:

It turns out this line only gets the releases of modules with the exact tag DRUPAL-5, which is what any module with a Drupal 5 development branch should call it. It does not get modules, such as phoneblogz, tagged only with a specific release.

phone 5.x-1.x-dev
5.x
thierry_gd - May 2, 2007 - 20:38
Nightly development snapshot from CVS branch: DRUPAL-5
Download: phone-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz

I have no idea what or if one can use instead of "DRUPAL-5" to get, say, all the latest official releases of a module in the Drupal 5 development branch.

So that's why there's a very out of date phone module release downloaded:

phone 5.x-1.x-dev
5.x
thierry_gd - May 2, 2007 - 20:38
Nightly development snapshot from CVS branch: DRUPAL-5
Download: phone-5.x-1.x-dev.tar.gz

But no phoneblogz, which has only this listed for 5 in all releases:

phoneblogz 5.x-1.3
5.x
mattb - April 30, 2007 - 19:04
Official release from CVS tag: DRUPAL-5--1-3
Download: phoneblogz-5.x-1.3.tar.gz

Not sure where to go from here, except to ask a real CVS expert or to see if the Drush module (which communicates with Drupal.org to get latest release information when downloading modules individually) has an option to download all modules.

^{benjamin, Agaric Design Collective}

Resolution