From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 01:59:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737B21065678 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:59:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FE738FC15 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so1108525vws.13 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:59:42 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.125.38 with SMTP id w38mr1239183vcr.49.1279850382154; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.190.198 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:59:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [71.1.135.50] In-Reply-To: <4C48F4E7.3080402@a1poweruser.com> References: <4C48F4E7.3080402@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:59:42 -0700 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: Fbsd8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Anybody using the portcheckout port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:59:43 -0000 On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is this port broken? > > I can not get it to work. > > It gives this message > > cvs checkout: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the -d option > Cannot read the INDEX file. Give up > I am not familiar with that port, but it looks to be a wrapper for running cvs to get the port directory (and dependencies) you have requested, then installing from that. cvs needs either the -d flag or the CVSROOT environment variable to tell it which CVS repo to checkout from. There are some examples here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html -- Rob Farmer > The manpage has no information about any options at all, so have no idea how > the -d option is to be coded. I do have a /usr/ports/INDEX file so don't > understand what its complaining about. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >