Hi, after first time using CVS, I'd like to ask something: Why isn't it possible to _first_ download the winsup-cvs archive from the Redhat sources server, _then_ update it with the most recent files from the CVS server? I analyzed the CVS bzip'ed winsup tarball from the server and all paths start with the winsup\ path. But if I DO NOT download the tarball and first start the 'cvs checkout winsup', then everything is placed below 'src\'. I'd like to have these sources placed in /usr/src. So I cd'ed to /usr, and started CVS there. With 'cvs checkout winsup' all the files were perfectly placed in /usr/src/winsup, /usr/src/.... But now it comes: I cd'ed to /usr/src, moved the old files to another directory to get them out of my sight, unpacked the tarball into /usr/src/ ... . I couldn't use the same directory ( /usr) for this, because the base paths didn't match. Then I tried to update THIS unpacked tarball by the files from CVS - this didn't work, it complained abut a missing CVS/Entries. Two questions: 1) Why are the base paths inside your tarballs starting with winsup\ whilst the paths from CVS all begin with src/winsup... ? Is there a definite reason? I'd suggest to set the base path in the tarball to 'src/...' too, to get them to a standardized format. 2) Do I require to download the single CVS files first, before I can update? I'd rather prefer to unpack the bzipped archive and update _this_ via CVS single-file-wise. Thanks for your help... Andreas -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
