From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 2 3:25:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4618637B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA25710; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 12:31:18 +0200 Message-ID: <3B692A6C.6D84C551@i-clue.de> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 12:24:44 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: information about $CVSROOT, 'cvs update' and 'cvsup' - help! References: <20010802094734.74901.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Newbie wrote: > > I tried to update my existing tree... by typing (what was stated in Greg > Lehey's book): > > cd /usr/src > cvs update -P -d > > [snip] > Now, I have no clue what do to. > [snip] > > After reading this, I've become extremely confused about CVS and CVSUP. CVS is to manage various versions of FreeBSD source code. It is much easier to use CVSup to update your sources. RTFM: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/cutting-edge.html tells the whole story. Read the whole chapter, then update to -STABLE. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message