Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 22:05:55 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: Talbot NEIL <talbotn@sportsmedicine.com.au>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <19990404220554.A1138@rtfm.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990331103743.4169D-100000@cygnus.rush.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:41:07AM -0500 References: <4.1.19990326095859.00927ca0@130.102.41.66> <Pine.BSF.3.96.990331103743.4169D-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 10:41:07AM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > I'm not sure how hairy building X would be on your machine or if there exists > a binary of XFree for your platform, but I think you can install CVSup > from /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin or /usr/ports/net/cvsup and give it these > flags: Building X is rather simple (at least on i386 and sparc). With FreeBSD, just cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 and answer the few questions before it compiles. You want /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-contrib, too. > cvsup -g -L 2 ..... > > this will have it not bring up X. you can also export your DISPLAY variable > to point at another machine that does have X. a) -g (disable GUI) is implied if $DISPLAY is not set. b) no X libs to link with means that cvsup will compile without GUI support. I'm not sure of the statically linked cvsup from the cvsup-bin port does X. > -Alfred > P.S. Have fun on the other side, Al. New York won't survive the peace and quiet you leave behind :-) -- Nathan Dorfman <nathan@rtfm.net> The statements and opinions in my Unix Admin @ Frontline Communications usenet posts are mine, not FCC's. "The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an approaching train." --/usr/games/fortune To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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