Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> If that were true (and it doesn't seem to be), that would be decidedly
> non-intuitive. A careful reading reveals that it doesn't actually
> specify which dominates if the environment variable *is* set, though,
> as I said, the normal unix convention would be to go with the file.
manpage could probably be more specific at this point...

> I mean the offending file. These may all be consequences of your
> interrupted updates. What I would do, is log the next update:
>    cvs -z3 update > /var/tmp/pkgsrc.cvs.log
i tried some updates again and it seems that it really was consequence of the 
interrupted updates / different CVS servers used for different directories. 
after the "link CVS/Root" patch the update proceeds without any problems, all 
error messages disappeared...

thanks very much for lots of valuable information...

regards,

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Lubos
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