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To: jim@carroll.com
Subject: Re: CVSup and the CVS repository (fwd)
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Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:58:13 -0700
From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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In article <Pine.BSD.3.91.970718163423.29451F-100000@apollo.carroll.com>,
Jim Carroll  <jim@carroll.com> wrote:
> 
>  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=.
> [...]

Bleep.  If you want the repository, you must not specify "tag" or
"date" in the supfile.  Specifying "tag" or "date" causes it to
deliver a specific checked out version of each file.

Also:

>       *default base=/usr prefix=/usr

You probably don't want "prefix=/usr" for the repository.  The
"standard" prefix is "/home/ncvs".  If you use "prefix=/usr" it will
put the repository on top of your "/usr/src" tree, which surely is
not what you want.

I'd suggest starting with /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile, and
modifying it if necessary to meet your needs.  Look also at
secure-cvs-supfile in the same directory.

John
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   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth