From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 13 23:53:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04203 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:53:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04085 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:50:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2/UCB) id JAA21807; Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:48:38 +0200 (EET) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:48:37 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: cvs question Message-ID: <19990114094837.B17491@ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , FreeBSD Hackers References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.17i In-Reply-To: ; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Wed, Jan 13, 1999 at 08:23:39PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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