From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 1 11:13:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D62A1065681 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:13:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@sadeem.net) Received: from qb-out-0506.google.com (qb-out-0506.google.com [72.14.204.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B7B8FC29 for ; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:13:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@sadeem.net) Received: by qb-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id f30so80955qba.7 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.102.234.18 with SMTP id g18mr2851629muh.105.1214910782059; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.238.14 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Jul 2008 04:13:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 14:13:02 +0300 From: "Yousef Raffah" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080630110349.GA80339@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Syncing or maybe update issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:13:04 -0000 On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Yousef Raffah wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:09:25PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a box which can't sync using cvsup, therefore, ... >> >> Let's start here. Why not? What happens? Have you used -L2? >> >> Also, if you're using 6.2 or later, you should be able to use csup >> (comes with the base system) and not cvsup. >> >>> I thought of >>> using cvs by invoking the following command in the directory >>> /usr/src/cvs/ >>> >>> # cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs co src >>> >>> I do get all the updates and it seems to be checking out successfully, >>> however, when I try to >>> # make -j4 buildword >>> I get the following error about elf.h not being found! >> >> This looks like you're checking out HEAD/-CURRENT. Is this really what >> you want to be doing? Probably not, based on the fact you mailed >> freebsd-stable and not freebsd-current. >> > I guess you nailed it, I couldn't understand how to specify that using > the command I used earlier. Anyhow, I'm checking it with the -r > RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE and will report back how things go. I guess I couldn't figure out how to checkout RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE from the mirror freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs I typed this: # cvs checkout -r RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE src Can someone help with it, I can't spot an issue with the syntax but it is complaining saying: cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot write /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/val-tags: Permission denied