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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in4.uu.net!204.27.65.11!news-out.communique.net!communique!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.new-york.net!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: test@carroll.com (Test) Subject: CVSup and the CVS repository X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Cache-Post-Path: hercules.carroll.com!unknown@athena.carroll.com Organization: Carroll-Net Message-ID: <EDJ7rn.Dvs@nonexistent.com> X-Trace: 869258002 17980 (None) [199.224.10.73] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: hercules.carroll.com Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 20:35:33 GMT Lines: 59 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44658 I have been having a tremndous amount of trouble trying to get the CVS repository installed on my system (FreeBSD 2.2.1). CVSup (version 15.1) seems to indicate that it has succeeded (and it does build the list file), but it does not create the CVS repository. By this, I mean it does not create the CVSROOT/ directory needed by the 'cvs' utility. Here is my cvsup supfile *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr prefix=/usr *default compress src-all I ran cvsup thusly: cvsup -g -L2 supfile After it was done, it seems nothing I do can access the CVS repository. I have tried a basic listing of tags, but it yields no results: cvs -d /usr history -T This yields: cvs [history aborted]: cannot open history file: /usr/CVSROOT/history: No such file or directory All attempts to extract source also failes, with an error that the release does not exist: cvs -d /usr -P -r RELENG_2_2_1_RELEASE src This yeilds the error: cvs [checkout aborted]: no such tag RELENG_2_2_1_RELEASE I obviously do not have a firm graps of the inner workings of the CVS system. I have read every reference from the FreeBSD site (handbook & FAQ) I could find. I also have read over the docs that came with the cvsup executable (version 15.1). Any help you can offer would be much appreciated. Please respond in email to: jim@carroll.com Thanks in advance