I think I figured it out. I was setting CVSROOT in my .cshrc file but it was being changed to something else later in the process.
"Joe Willmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >I am trying to use CVS for the first time and not having much luck. > > I am ruinning YellowDog Linux on PPC. Installed CVS version is 1.11.17 as > reported by cvs -version. > > I have created a directory /home/uj672c/cvs_dir for the archive. > > My linux shell is cshell. > > I added setenv CVSROOT /home/uj672c/cvs_dir to my .cshrc file. > > I issued the command "cvs init" and received > 208 > cvs init > cvs [init aborted]: cannot make directory /project/labtest.common/cm/cvs: > No such file or directory > > ls cvs_dir showed me an empty dir. I would have expected that the CVSROOT > environment variable would have pointer to the cvs_dir. > > so I issued > > cvs -d $CVSROOT init > > Which was accepted without error and a ls of vcs_dir showed a directory > named CVSROOT with lots of contents. So obviously the cvs init command > worked. > > So the first question: Why didn't "cvs init" command work? > > So now to the more interesting question. I ran through the standard > exercize of > > mkdir tc > mkdir tc/main > mkdir tc/testing > > cd tc > cvs import -m "Imported sources" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start > > For which I received the following: > 145 > cvs import -m "Imported" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start > cvs [import aborted]: /project/labtest.common/cm/cvs/CVSROOT: No such file > or directory > > > So I tried > cvs -d $CVSROOT import -m "Imported sources" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start > > for which I received: > 146 > cvs -d $CVSROOT import -m "Imported" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start > cvs [import aborted]: /home/uj672c/cvs_dir/CVSROOT/CVSROOT: No such file > or directory > > so tell me what am I doing wrong? > > Thanks. > > > >
