Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:03:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Get Source from CD CVS Repository Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624210148.29163i-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623134402.24743A-100000@andrsn.Stanford.edu>
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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Annelise Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to use the second cdrom of the 2.2.6-RELEASE distribution > to put sources on the hard drive. > > I have set the environmental variable CVSROOT to /cdrom/CVSROOT Okay, that should be right. > I created a supfile to use with cvsup, telling it to put the > files in /opt: You don't use cvsup to access a repository, you use it to _update_ it .. > I tried using cvs, like this: > cd /opt/src > # that's where I want the stuff put > setenv CVSROOT /cdrom/CVSROOT > cvs checkout -d . -r RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE src > but get various error messages--I think there's something I don't > understand about this. What errors do you get? The -d . argument is redundant. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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