CVS Problems

Robert Slade bsd at bathnetworks.com
Sat Jun 25 16:05:02 GMT 2005


On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 15:21, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2005-06-25 14:51, Robert Slade <bsd at bathnetworks.com> wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> > I'm trying to update to 6.0-CURRENT and I am having some problems with
> > this. I have read the handbook etc, but when I run cvsup, it deletes the
> > /usr/src tree rather than updating it. I have src-all uncommented. I am
> > using a uk mirror so that maybe the problem.
> 
> Show us your supfile, so we can see what differences it has from:
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
> 
> > Basically, can someone give me some guidance as what I should have in
> > the supfile, particularly the tag= and what host I should use.
> 
> Yes.  Use the example supfiles provided in /usr/share/examples/cvsup:
> 
> # cvs up -g -L 2 -h CVSUPX.FREEBSD.ORG /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile
> 
Giorgos,

Thanks,

It looks like the problem was with using a uk host. Moving to the to the
main sites seems to have worked at least it's running now. I'm trying it
with tag=. Hopefully this will give me what I need. 

Rob



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