Subject: Re: Problems updating sources
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/12/2002 15:35:08
On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 10:36:55AM +0100, Julio Merino wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I think I'm having problems when updating my /usr/src tree. I setup
> CVS like this:
> 
> export CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.fr.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD-CVS
> export CVS_RSH=ssh
> 
> And I run cvs like this:
> 
> cd /usr/src
> cvs -z6 update -d -P
> 
> But I get the following:
> 
> -----
> [strip]
> cvs server: Updating bin/csh
> cvs update: move away bin/csh/Makefile; it is in the way
> C bin/csh/Makefile
> cvs update: move away bin/csh/alloc.c; it is in the way
> C bin/csh/alloc.c
> cvs update: move away bin/csh/char.c; it is in the way
> C bin/csh/char.c
> [strip]

Maybe try:
cvs -d $CVSROOT  -z6 update -d -P

I get this problem too, when the server in CVSROOT/Root doesn't match
$CVSROOT. Forcing cvs to use $CVSROOT via -d helps for me.

(don't ask me how I got in this situation :)

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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