Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:59:42 -0700 From: Rob Farmer <rfarmer@predatorlabs.net> To: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Anybody using the portcheckout port Message-ID: <AANLkTimWijFxtl1xykpg7d9mkIF7ggpwI06p3narjs1n@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C48F4E7.3080402@a1poweruser.com> References: <4C48F4E7.3080402@a1poweruser.com>
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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote: > Is this port broken? > > I can not get it to work. > > It gives this message > > cvs checkout: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the -d option > Cannot read the INDEX file. Give up > I am not familiar with that port, but it looks to be a wrapper for running cvs to get the port directory (and dependencies) you have requested, then installing from that. cvs needs either the -d flag or the CVSROOT environment variable to tell it which CVS repo to checkout from. There are some examples here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html -- Rob Farmer > The manpage has no information about any options at all, so have no idea how > the -d option is to be coded. I do have a /usr/ports/INDEX file so don't > understand what its complaining about. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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