From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 2 10:46:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF89637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:46:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from gv-m1.usfamily.net (gv-m1.usfamily.net [207.225.145.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3E9643F85 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:46:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Curt_Grimley@usa.net) Received: from [64.212.140.119] by usfamily.net (USFamily MTA v1.0.6) with SMTP id com for ; Wed, 02 Apr 2003 12:45:01 -0600 (CST) From: "Curt Grimley" To: Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:45:46 -0600 Message-ID: <001d01c2f948$1dd75cd0$0100a8c0@grimleyhome.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: cvs source questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 18:46:19 -0000 Hi, I'm new to FreeBSD and enjoying it... I used an off-the-shelf 4.6 release to get started, and then decided to cvsup and get up to stable. I only have dialup service, so seeing a copy of the "CVS Repository" on disk #2, I followed the instructions there to populate the cvs source directories... there were tar files that dropped in a lot of ",v" files. (No actual source apparently.) cvsup ran fine and source was brought in, but then I had multiple troubles with the build in that these ",v" files got in the way again and again. I found a post somewhere of someone saying "why are there ,v files in your source tree?". So after yanking these and starting over, everything worked fine. Q1 - Do I need the ,v files for anything? I presume they're version control related, but are they needed at the end-user system for cvsup-ing? Q2 - What about all these "Attic" directories - are these normally present in /src/ or are they unnecessary? Q3 - There's a CVSROOT directory also - is that important? (Or maybe you know of a document that explains these cvs mysteries - I can't seem to find one.) Thanks much, Curt Grimley