From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 4 19:57:14 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3664414F02 for ; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 19:57:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nathan@cygnus.rush.net) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA05330; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 22:05:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 22:05:55 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Talbot NEIL , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <19990404220554.A1138@rtfm.net> References: <4.1.19990326095859.00927ca0@130.102.41.66> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:41:07AM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:41:07AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I'm not sure how hairy building X would be on your machine or if there exists > a binary of XFree for your platform, but I think you can install CVSup > from /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin or /usr/ports/net/cvsup and give it these > flags: Building X is rather simple (at least on i386 and sparc). With FreeBSD, just cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 and answer the few questions before it compiles. You want /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-contrib, too. > cvsup -g -L 2 ..... > > this will have it not bring up X. you can also export your DISPLAY variable > to point at another machine that does have X. a) -g (disable GUI) is implied if $DISPLAY is not set. b) no X libs to link with means that cvsup will compile without GUI support. I'm not sure of the statically linked cvsup from the cvsup-bin port does X. > -Alfred > P.S. Have fun on the other side, Al. New York won't survive the peace and quiet you leave behind :-) -- Nathan Dorfman The statements and opinions in my Unix Admin @ Frontline Communications usenet posts are mine, not FCC's. "The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train." --/usr/games/fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message