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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CVSUP and handbook?
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:42:40 +0100
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In article <mvhECr09M.6pJ@netcom.com>,
mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) writes:
> I did a CVSUP with src-all, but it erased the FAQ and handbook from
> /usr/src/share/doc. I made another sup file to get the docs, but a
> subsequent src-all update erased them again. Is there a way to do a
> cvsup which will mirror the distribution I started with? Or could
> somebody post a docs-all supfile?
What's your CVSROOT set to ? It *SHOULD* be something like
"/home/ncvs" (if it's somewhere else, it's a good idea to
make the /home/ncvs sym-link and use that - keeps it consistent
with freefall.freebsd.org).
cvsup only updates the files under $CVSROOT AFAIK.
> Thanks,
>
> Mike H.
>
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