On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:23:24 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> I have some concerns/questions: > > 1. Although I note that people are always directed to the Scribus site > for info about CVS, it's really not easy to find; I always have to start > searching around for it. Eventually I find that the only way to get to > the goodies is clicking on FAQ -- not the most obvious choice. Well I did the same for a while, then I put the relevant instructions into a text file. Then I just searched my .bash_history file Now I think I sould put the export CVSROOT instruction into .bashrc > 2. I have 3 computers that I try to keep updated with Scribus CVS, an > Athlon XP, a 'plain' Athlon, and a Pentium 4 laptop. All are running > FC3 -- is it necessary to download/update CVS on each individually, > compile, then install, or could I copy the compiled files from one to > the other? No, download once and copy it wherever. In fact there was/is a daily cvs snapshot bzip2 up that could/can be downloaded > > 3. When I do update/compile from CVS, do I need to do a 'make clean' > each time? I think make distclean is what you want, but have a look at the make file to see what happens. Owen
