Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:48:37 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs question Message-ID: <19990114094837.B17491@ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990113202339.asmodai@wxs.nl>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 08:23:39PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.990113202339.asmodai@wxs.nl>
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On Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 08:23:39PM +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am back again to bother some more ;) > > Since I am starting some more serious development on CURRENT I switched > cvsup from getting the checked out version to getting the updated > version(,v) files. > > I made the base and prefix directory both /usr so CVSROOT lies in /usr > I think it's a bad idea. You'd better make your CVSROOT as /usr/FreeBSD-CVS. > I know from some meedling with cvs that I need to specify a CVSROOT > environment variable, so I did a CVSROOT=/usr before starting work on the > cvs stuff. > > [root@daemon] (138) # echo $CVSROOT > /usr > > Because I already have doc, ports and src in place I did a cvs update -P -d > from /usr and the following startled me: > > [root@daemon] (139) # cvs update -P -d > cvs update: Updating ports > cvs [update aborted]: cannot open directory /home/ncvs/ports: No such file > or directory > > I looked in CVSROOT and saw that there were some log entries regarding > hardlinked /home/ncvs for CVSROOT which would be set back to $CVSROOT. But > I have no clue whatsoever where this /home/ncvs comes from. > > Any ideas are appreciated... I guess you have your /usr/src, /usr/ports installed from your Release CD-ROM. You may want to delete them, and then `cvs co' from your local CVSROOT. Best regards, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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