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From: Jim Carroll <jim@carroll.com>
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: CVSup and the CVS repository (fwd)
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 I have been having a tremendous amount of trouble trying  to  get  the  CVS
 repository  installed  on  my  system (FreeBSD 2.2.1). CVSup (version 15.1)
 seems to indicate that it has succeeded (and it does build the list  file),
 but  it  does  not  create  the CVS repository. By this, I mean it does not
 create the CVSROOT/ directory needed by the 'cvs' utility.

 Here is my cvsup supfile

	*default release=cvs tag=.
	*default delete use-rel-suffix

	*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org

	*default base=/usr prefix=/usr

	*default compress

	src-all

 I ran cvsup thusly:

	cvsup -g -L2 supfile

 After it was done, it seems nothing I do can access the CVS  repository.  I
 have tried a basic listing of tags, but it yields no results:

	cvs -d /usr history -T

 This yields:

	cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: 
	/usr/CVSROOT/history: No such file or directory

 All  attempts  to extract source also fails, with an error that the release
 does not exist:

	cvs -d /usr -P -r RELENG_2_2_1_RELEASE src

 This yeilds the error:

	cvs [checkout aborted]: no such tag RELENG_2_2_1_RELEASE

 I obviously do not have a firm graps of  the  inner  workings  of  the  CVS
 system.  I have read every reference from the FreeBSD site (handbook & FAQ)
 I could find. I also have read over the  docs  that  came  with  the  cvsup
 executable (version 15.1).

 Any help you can offer would be much appreciated.

 Thanks in advance

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