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Date:      Wed, 24 Jun 1998 21:03:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to Get Source from CD CVS Repository
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980624210148.29163i-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980623134402.24743A-100000@andrsn.Stanford.edu>

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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


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