On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, David Laight wrote:

> > Which server are you using? I'm trying to see if I can reproduce the
> > problem with anoncvs.netbsd.org, but it's not being very cooperative
> > right now:
> >
> > # cvs update -C
> > cvs [update aborted]: recv() from server anoncvs.netbsd.org: EOF
>
> It has been wading through treacle all day :-(

Yes, well I finally got through, and it worked for me:

fredb@tautology-> pwd
/var/tmp/basesrc/usr.bin/make
fredb@tautology-> r
cvs update -C
(Locally modified Makefile moved to .#Makefile.1.5)
cvs server: Updating .
cvs server: Updating PSD.doc
cvs server: Updating lst.lib
U lst.lib/Makefile

This was on NetBSD 1.6, not 1.6G -- which has the same "cvs", however
-- but it was a clean checkout. Thor Lancelot Simon (who adminsters
anoncvs.netbsd.org) has asserted that only checkouts originally made
with older versions of "cvs" seem to have problems with updating the
"NetBSD" tag lines, so maybe that's the deal here, too. Whatever the
problem is, it eventually goes away after repeated "cvs update"'s,
because I know "update -C" has started working for subdirs in my
checkouts, and I haven't done a clean checkout for years.

Frederick