On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 03:36:24PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> are you talking/thinking about:  src/usr.sbin/dbsym  ?
> (which is part of the _syssrc-cmp "sub-"alias module)?

Yes

> 
> Yes, you're right that this directory will not be created by "cvs update
> -A" under certain circumstances.  It has been removed on -current.  That
> means you can't convert a -current working directory checked out using
> the "src" (or "syssrc", or "src-nocrypto", or "src-crypto-us", or
> "src-crypto-all", or any of the internal-only aliases) to a
> release-branch working directory without manually mucking about to check
> it out in the correct location.

I seem to remmeber that there are equivalent problems, with another
directory, when doing 1.5 -> current (related to crypto modules maybe)
but I may be wrong.

> 
> I should have mentioned that "cvs update -A" is really something only
> CVS experts should use and only with great care, but I didn't want to
> confuse the issues given that it's in the documented procedure and I
> really don't know without looking what the state of the CVS
> administrative files is in the distributed source tars.....
> 
> When in doubt always start with a fresh checkout....   :-)

fresh checkout of the same tag as you'll use later for updates.
Maybe this is the point which is not clear in the docs.

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