Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:33:17 -0600 From: dkelly@hiwaay.net To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Just CVS (was Re: CVS question, sendmail, named) Message-ID: <199702160333.VAA28629@nexgen.ampr.org> In-Reply-To: Message from jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) of "14 Feb 1997 18:05:36 PST." <5e35lg$k3k@austin.polstra.com>
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John Polstra wrote:
>
> Joerg already answered this. But it's a confusing topic, so I'm
> sure he won't mind if I give you more of a step-by-step answer.
I'm certainly confused.
> The first time you check out your tree (from scratch), do this:
>
> cd /usr
> cvs co -P -r RELENG_2_2 src
>
> Your whole tree is now at -2.2. Now to switch your sendmail to
> the -current version:
Asked essentially the same question I'm going to ask again last week on -current but apparently didn't ask right because I didn't get a workable solution.
As a total CVS novice (who has a backup of his source tree) I attempted the above example and got complaints about lacking a CVSROOT.
nexgen: {12} cd /usr
nexgen: {13} cvs co -P -r RELENG_2_2 src
cvs: in directory .:
cvs: must set the CVSROOT environment variable
cvs: or specify the '-d' option to cvs.
cvs [co aborted]: You don't have a CVSROOT environment variable
nexgen: {14}
This is a quick way to get almost the exact same error message as I got attempting to roll my own release (2.2-GAMMA, sometime last week). It was suggested that I'd have the CVS stuff if I used cvsup to be current. So I studied /usr/share/examples/cvsup/cvs-supfile. I *think* it required slight modifications. This is my cvsup-2.2 with comments removed:
*default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_2_2
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default compress
src-all
ports-all tag=.
Think I needed the tag= items to get the proper files? And I changed prefix so it would act on /usr/src and /usr/ports without moving them to /home/ncvs. Maybe this was a mistake?
So back to the original question: I'm lacking a CVSROOT and I don't have a ~/.cvsrc. How to I get there from here? Is there something I need in addition to src-all in my cvsup file?
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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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