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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,
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