From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 24 21:03:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA08630 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:03:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA08605 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:03:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA01071; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:03:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Annelise Anderson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to Get Source from CD CVS Repository In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Annelise Anderson wrote: > I'm trying to use the second cdrom of the 2.2.6-RELEASE distribution > to put sources on the hard drive. > > I have set the environmental variable CVSROOT to /cdrom/CVSROOT Okay, that should be right. > I created a supfile to use with cvsup, telling it to put the > files in /opt: You don't use cvsup to access a repository, you use it to _update_ it .. > I tried using cvs, like this: > cd /opt/src > # that's where I want the stuff put > setenv CVSROOT /cdrom/CVSROOT > cvs checkout -d . -r RELENG_2_2_5_RELEASE src > but get various error messages--I think there's something I don't > understand about this. What errors do you get? The -d . argument is redundant. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message