Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:48:18 -0800 From: "Paul A. Scott" <pscott@skycoast.us> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS Message-ID: <BA0A6F92.15142%pscott@skycoast.us> In-Reply-To: <3DE5217B.43CE658@mindspring.com>
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> You are not being quite forthright, I think. Actually, I've been totally forthright. I start with an empty working directory, and type: setenv CVSROOT ":pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs" cvs login cvs co src/contrib When it gets to directory src/contrib/cvs, I get: cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write <CVS/Template file>: No such file or directory Nothing hidden, totally forthright. > This normally happens on a cvs -R co, rather than a cvs co, when > you are asking for a specific date tag or a release tag which > no longer exists, when running against a read-only repository. As you can see, that's not the case. > Probably you can get around the problem by updating your 'cvs', Running 'cvs -v' on FreeBSD 4.5: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.10 `Halibut' (client/server) This version breaks on checkout of src/contrib/cvs Running 'cvs -v' on FreeBSD 4.7: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.1p1-FreeBSD (client/server) This version works. Thanks. I'll update my cvs. Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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