Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:20:20 +0300 From: "Yousef Raffah" <yraffah@sadeem.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syncing or maybe update issue Message-ID: <e1cca2f70806300620j37effdfajff160d098700cda1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080630110349.GA80339@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <e1cca2f70806300309v50af58f8ya1189d490d51dff6@mail.gmail.com> <20080630110349.GA80339@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 01:09:25PM +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a box which can't sync using cvsup, therefore, ... > > Let's start here. Why not? What happens? Have you used -L2? > > Also, if you're using 6.2 or later, you should be able to use csup > (comes with the base system) and not cvsup. > >> I thought of >> using cvs by invoking the following command in the directory >> /usr/src/cvs/ >> >> # cvs -d freebsdanoncvs@anoncvs.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs co src >> >> I do get all the updates and it seems to be checking out successfully, >> however, when I try to >> # make -j4 buildword >> I get the following error about elf.h not being found! > > This looks like you're checking out HEAD/-CURRENT. Is this really what > you want to be doing? Probably not, based on the fact you mailed > freebsd-stable and not freebsd-current. > I guess you nailed it, I couldn't understand how to specify that using the command I used earlier. Anyhow, I'm checking it with the -r RELENG_7_0_0_RELEASE and will report back how things go. Thanks for your guidance. > Please take the time to read this in full. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/anoncvs.html > I did, but I didn't go through it in detail, I just skimmed it (bad behaviour) :) > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > >
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