This is what is in my pkgsrc/CVS/Root:

anoncvs@anoncvs.NetBSD.org:/cvsroot

This doesn't looks different from what I used to have in pkgsrc/CVS/Root.

Jasper

> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 jasper@nedlinux.nl wrote:
>
>> This afternoon, when I was updating my pkgsrc with the following
>> command:
>> "cvs -q up -dP" , my laptop freezed (because of Frozen Bubble). So I
>> rebooted it the hard way and I decided to run "cvs -q up -dP" again,
>> since
>> it wasn't finished at the time of the reboot. But after a while I
>> received
>> the following error: "cvs update: CVSROOT must be an absolute pathname
>> (not `X:')
>> cvs update: when using local access method.
>> cvs [update aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: `X:'. "
>
> Maybe you have corrupted CVS/Root files. Have a look at pkgsrc/CVS/Root
> and other files.
>
> For example, maybe your pkgsrc/CVS/Root could contain:
>
> :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
>
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