From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 29 0:16:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9602B37BCF9 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:16:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12aDdy-0008jo-00; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:16:02 +0200 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:16:02 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: George Neville-Neil Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question... Message-ID: <20000329101602.B33199@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200003290632.WAA62636@jchurch.meer.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200003290632.WAA62636@jchurch.meer.net> Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2000-03-28 (22:32), George Neville-Neil wrote: > 1) How do I do development and not overwrite my work when cvsup'ing? > > 2) How do I know when cvsuping will NOT trash my current setup? It would > be cool if a "last known good source tree" were stored somewhere. I ask > this because I sup'd this morning and got toasted and had to sup/build again. If you have about 600-900Megs free, just cvsup the CVS tree. > 3) Is there a guide on using CVS with CVSup (the man page is not particularly > helpful) so that I can have a CVS tree that is updated by cvsup? Oh, and here you ask about it. Just install /usr/ports/net/cvsup-mirror, and answer the relatively easy questions. I'll get to writing something about it in the handbook. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message