From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 17:22:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 991CA37B400 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A7F43E4A for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:22:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E72F5290C3; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:22:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 20:22:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: KDE = K.D.E.A.D! (2.2.2 to 3.0.1, cvspass?) In-Reply-To: <20020807061715.GC655@hades.hell.gr> Message-ID: <20020807201742.I33423-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > PL> ...me straight. By the way, can't cvs or cvsup include this CVSROOT info on the command line, hence leading to a more general success rate? > Yes, of course it can. Use the -d option to cvs: > $ cvs -d ':pserver:cvs@server:/path' login > $ cvs -d ':pserver:cvs@server:/path' checkout foo-module Simple Question: Is the "foo-module" another name for a directory, one which contains items necessary for "make?" For example, if I search ports for "chef" I find a "Download" link to: Index of ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/misc/chef/ [Upper Directory] Makefile. . Jun 13 03:59 570 distinfo. . Jun 13 03:59 52 pkg-comment Jun 13 03:59 55 pkg-descr . Jun 13 03:59 267 pkg-plist . Jun 13 03:59 93 Is there a way to "get this port" using CVS then? Apologies for my novice status.[2] > You would have to explicitly specify the -d option in all the invocations of CVS though[1], and this can get boring after a while. > - Giorgos > [1] Well, not exactly 100% *all* of them, since CVS will in some very > well defined cases, pick up the "working CVSROOT" from the local > files and happily use it. But that's a detail you'll find out > easily after using CVS for a while. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 [2] Your use of footnotes is quite endearing ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message