From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 16: 3:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6691714E01 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:03:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA49461; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 16:03:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Christopher J. Michaels" Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: How do I check out from a local CVS tree? In-Reply-To: <000001bebdc3$81898ba0$0200000a@shithead.weeble.dyndns.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Christopher J. Michaels wrote: > Hello, > I have the whole CVS tree on my system, via CVSUP. Someone had suggested > that I could use cvs to pull the /usr/src and /usr/ports trees out of my > local CVS repository. > > Is this possible? If so, how do I do it, specifically I don't know how to > specify that I want RELENG_3. Pointing me to a FAQ page or specific message > in the mailing list archives would be fine. setenv CVSROOT /path/to/your/cvs/tree cd /usr cvs co src > I can't seem to search the mailing list archives anymore. The search works > fine but the URLs to all the messages have odd characters, which return > pages that don't exist. (But that's another issue.) man cvs Did you pull the actual tree or did you run cvsup in checkout mode? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message