Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 09:08:31 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How am I supposed to have cvsup set up? Message-ID: <19971127090831.52057@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126075359.12565A-100000@cello.synapse.net>; from Evan Champion on Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 08:06:25AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126075359.12565A-100000@cello.synapse.net>
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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
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