Subject: Re: cvs update failed
To: None <Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no>
From: Feico Dillema <dillema@acm.org>
List: current-users
Date: 04/28/2000 17:26:46
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 05:10:11PM +0200, Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no wrote:
> require more extensive editing and can't be pasted right "from
> here to there", so I've BCC'ed the www folks in this reply.
>
> 1) How to convert an unpacked source set to use anoncvs (or
> another CVS server)
>
> The source set may have a different CVS root specified than
> anoncvs -- earlier distributions have at least used the master
> CVS root as CVS root in the source sets. To convert a source
> tree in /usr/src to use anoncvs, do
>
> $ cd /usr/src
> $ find . -name Root | while read f; do
> > echo :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot > $f
> > done
> $
Here's a (simpler?) alternative way from the OpenBSD anoncvs WWW manual:
NOTE: if you are updating a source tree that you initially
fetched from a different server, or from a CD, you must add the -d
$CVSROOT options to cvs. You must also set the CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT
environment variable.
> 2) Under point 6) in the existing description of how to check out
> an anoncvs tree, there should be an entry for how to check out
> the international crypto tree.
minor correction: the complete source tree with international crypto
sources.
> fixed. I also think the pointer to the anoncvs info for the
> Tromsų server should point directly to
>
> http://www.pasta.cs.uit.no/Pasta/anoncvs.html
> You may want to check that with Feico, though.)
I have no problem with that.
Feico.