From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 26 10:42:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20925 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:42:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20811 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:41:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA08585; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:41:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Annelise Anderson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Get Source from CD CVS Repository In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > I created a supfile to use with cvsup, telling it to put the > > > files in /opt: > > > > You don't use cvsup to access a repository, you use it to _update_ it .. > > Access? Update? Anyway I think I could probably run cvsupd and then > access the files on the disk (repository?) with cvsup. However, let's > proceed with cvs: > > > > > I tried using cvs, like this: > > > cd /opt/src > > > # that's where I want the stuff put > > > setenv CVSROOT /cdrom/CVSROOT > > > cvs checkout -d . -r RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE src > > > but get various error messages--I think there's something I don't > > > understand about this. Try cvs -R co -r RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE src the -R flag enables read-only mode; see the cvs man page for details. > If one wants the most recent source, it might be better to leave out > the -r argument or use -r HEAD; would that be correct? Many of the > files include a RELENG_2_2_6_RELEASE tag (which is what I meant to write > above) but with some other stuff after it, different for each file. So > this tag might not get the most recent. If you don't specify a tag you get the -CURRENT source at the time the CD was pressed. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message