Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 12:59:41 -0800 From: Jim Mock <mij@soupnazi.org> To: Curt Grimley <Curt_Grimley@usa.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs source questions Message-ID: <20030402205941.GA67590@soupnazi.org> In-Reply-To: <001d01c2f948$1dd75cd0$0100a8c0@grimleyhome.org> References: <001d01c2f948$1dd75cd0$0100a8c0@grimleyhome.org>
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On Wed, 02 Apr 2003 at 12:45:46 -0600, Curt Grimley wrote: > 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? No, you don't. Those are CVS files, CVSup doesn't use them. > Q2 - What about all these "Attic" directories - are these normally > present in /src/ or are they unnecessary? See above. > Q3 - There's a CVSROOT directory also - is that important? And again. > (Or maybe you know of a document that explains these cvs mysteries - I > can't seem to find one.) You've installed the CVS repository itself instead of just the sources. There's an explanation of this in the handbook, I think. - jim -- - jim mock. email: mij@soupnazi.org web: http://soupnazi.org - - freebsd project: jim@FreeBSD.org opendarwin: mij@opendarwin.org -
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