From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 19 17:24:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18154 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18121 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:24:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-79.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.79]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA02486; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:24:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA28150; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:57:14 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199803200057.SAA28150@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Two Source Trees for Several Machines In-reply-to: Message from Doug White of "Wed, 18 Mar 1998 20:56:55 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 18:57:13 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug White writes: > On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, David Kelly wrote: > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Updating /usr/src from cvs repository /home/ncvs > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > cd /usr/src && cvs -q update -P -d -r RELENG_2_2 ^^ > > > > cvs [update aborted]: no such tag RELENG_2_2 > > > > *** Error code 1 When All Else Fails, Read The Man Pages And Learn How To Run Cvs Like (Apparently) Everyone Else Does. That "-d" is trying to create or update (or something) a directory named "-r". This appears to do what I wish, and next time I'll use "update" in place of "checkout" (right?): # cd /usr # setenv CVSROOT /home/ncvs # cvs checkout -P -r RELENG_2_2 src Actually something else was going on (partial cvs?) so before the above worked I had to remove /usr/src (which was previously updated via cvsup). -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message