Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:41:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Get Source from CD CVS Repository Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980626103907.25008Y-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980625141417.7973A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Annelise Anderson wrote: > > > I created a supfile to use with cvsup, telling it to put the > > > files in /opt: > > > > You don't use cvsup to access a repository, you use it to _update_ it .. > > Access? Update? Anyway I think I could probably run cvsupd and then > access the files on the disk (repository?) with cvsup. However, let's > proceed with cvs: > > > > > I tried using cvs, like this: > > > cd /opt/src > > > # that's where I want the stuff put > > > setenv CVSROOT /cdrom/CVSROOT > > > cvs checkout -d . -r RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE src > > > but get various error messages--I think there's something I don't > > > understand about this. Try cvs -R co -r RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE src the -R flag enables read-only mode; see the cvs man page for details. > If one wants the most recent source, it might be better to leave out > the -r argument or use -r HEAD; would that be correct? Many of the > files include a RELENG_2_2_6_RELEASE tag (which is what I meant to write > above) but with some other stuff after it, different for each file. So > this tag might not get the most recent. If you don't specify a tag you get the -CURRENT source at the time the CD was pressed. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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