----- Original Message ----- | Why does it say on http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html | | a.. NOTE: If you are updating a source tree that you initially fetched | from | a different server, or from a CD, you must add the -d | [email protected]:/cvs options to cvs. | # cd /usr/src | # cvs -d [email protected]:/cvs -q up -Pd | Why But this is not mentioned on | http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc in the section on | Pre-loading | the tree ?
Because the tarball does not contain CVS server information, just a clean tree which then you can use a CVS server to update from. Once you've ran the cvs up the local tree keeps track of the current cvs server you are fetching from. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : [email protected] Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the best I can with the talent I have
