On 08/28/14 02:26, Joel Rees wrote:
> Finally getting a chance to look at this again, and I had a couple of
> questions.
>
> One, am I right that cvs co and cvs get are basically the same thing?
>
> (get, per http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html ,
> and co, per http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld .)
from "man cvs" :
checkout [options] modules...
Requires: repository.
Changes: working directory.
Synonyms: co, get
Make a working directory containing copies of the source
files specified by modules. You must execute `cvs checkout'
before using most of the other cvs commands, since most of
them operate on your working directory.
so...yes.
> The other, assuming that the last package showing update (U) before the
> broken pipe is now something like x11/xfce4, would it make sense to, with
> the current working directory still at /usr, issue
>
> sudo cvs -d$CVSROOT co -P ports/x11
>
> or
>
> cvs -qd [email protected]:/cvs get -P ports/x11
>
> just to be really, really, paranoid sure?
no, I'd just do a "cvs -Pd up" within the ports directory. Updating
your tree will restore any missing files.
Nick.
