From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 10 17:27:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982A337B401 for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:27:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mmp-1.gci.net (mmp-1.gci.net [208.138.130.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2902543FBF for ; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 17:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joepok@ninestar.com) Received: from [192.168.7.139] (64-164-237-24-mvl.nwc.gci.net [24.237.164.64]) by mmp-1.gci.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HGA00HQYJXZT4@mmp-1.gci.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:27:35 -0800 (AKDT) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 16:27:33 -0800 From: Joe Pokupec To: Free BSD List Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Subject: CVS Update X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:27:37 -0000 Hi All, I've been using FreeBSD 4.7 for about 6 months now. I've failed to understand how to use cvs. Can anyone point me to a web page or other explanation to use cvs to update: 1) The entire ports collection 2) My currently installed ffmpeg 3) 4.7 to 4.8 Attempts to use cvs update yield the following: # cvs update ffmpeg cvs update: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option cvs [update aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable. OK, how the heck does one specify the CVSROOT variable? I know that man cvs should be helpful, but my predominantly Mac background has lobotomized the logical lobe in my brain. Thanks Joe