From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 4 4:43:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from axl.ops.uunet.co.za (axl.ops.uunet.co.za [196.31.2.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D9837B6CA for ; Thu, 4 May 2000 04:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@axl.ops.uunet.co.za) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.ops.uunet.co.za) by axl.ops.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12nK2I-0000vK-00; Thu, 04 May 2000 13:43:18 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: rlglende@alink.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is the CVSROOT for a repository? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2000 15:10:48 MST." <009301bfb54c$6ff396c0$0100a8c0@landg01> Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 13:43:17 +0200 Message-ID: <3553.957440597@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 03 May 2000 15:10:48 MST, "Lew Glendenning" wrote: > Downloading and building the repository went fine. > > The next step is to create the source tree. I set the environmental > variable CVSROOT to '/usr1'. Then 'cd $CVSROOT/src' and 'cvs log Makefile'. Okay, so you've put your repository in /usr1. Now you need to check a working source tree out of it. cd /path/to/some/dir cvs checkout -rRELENG_4 src Obviously, you may want to use something other than RELENG_4 there. The cvs info file will help you a lot: info cvs Of course, if you're not familiar with info(1), you may first want to find out how to use it: info info Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message