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From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
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Subject: Re: How am I supposed to have cvsup set up?
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On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 08:06:25AM -0500, Evan Champion wrote:
> It's becomming increasingly apparent that I don't have cvsup set up right
> for what I want to do, but I don't know how I'm supposed to set it up
> right.
>
> I have been running cvsup in checkout mode, however I have local patches
> which I don't want overwritten by cvsup every time.  The logical answer
> seemed to be to run my own cvs tree, with a separate vendor tag for my
> local changes.
>
> Then I noticed that cvsup can also run in cvs mode, which basically does
> set up a complete cvs tree.  Great, I thought, I'll use that.  So I
> last night I ran cvsup in cvs mode, and it set up everything nicely, but
> all it downloaded were the checked-in RCS files (the ,v files) plus the
> CVSROOT stuff.
>
> 1.  Is this what I wanted to do to accomplish my goal?  If not, what
> should I have done?
>
> 2.  If so, how do I check out the entire source tree at once so I can do a
> make world?
>
> 3.  Was it a good idea to have the stuff unpack in /usr (so I got a
> /usr/CVSROOT, and /usr/src is full of the RCS files); if not, is there a
> "standard" place for this stuff to go?

Pick up ftp://ftp.lemis.com/pub/.cfbsd/ps/17-current.ps.gz
(PostScript) and tell me if there's anything there that you don't
understand, and if it answers your questions.

Greg