From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 7 12:51:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D2C414D42 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 12:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 18188 invoked from network); 7 Oct 1999 19:50:22 -0000 Received: from userbl49.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.144.156) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 7 Oct 1999 19:50:22 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id UAA00764; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:41:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 20:41:51 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: "K. Gunderson" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proper cvsup base dir? Message-ID: <19991007204151.E316@marder-1> References: <19991007120423.A35200@mark.iacan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991007120423.A35200@mark.iacan.org> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 12:04:23PM -0600, K. Gunderson wrote: > Greetings: > > I've never run cvsup before and looking at the docs and handbook I see a > difference in the base dir used. cvsup defauts to /usr/local/etc/cvsup, yet > the example files come configured to use /usr. It seems like the former > would be the more "proper" location but the folks who provided the > example files know a lot more about it than me. Now obviously > this is not mission critical, but I'm curious about it and would > appreciate it if somebody could enlighten me. > FreeBSD uses /usr, /usr/doc, /usr/src, /usr/ports. See http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html for lots of useful info on using cvsup from the guy who wrote it. > -- > Thanks--Ken > http://www.y2know.org/safari > > Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message