CVSROOT checkout?

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Fri Sep 17 08:56:31 UTC 2004


On 2004.09.17 10:48:20 +0200, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Brad Davis wrote:
> >try: CVSROOT=freebsdanoncvs at anoncvs.FreeBSD.org:/home/ncvs
> >cvs co blah
> >it says ssh only so leave out the :pserver: part.
> I must be on crack, last time I tried, it asked for a password.
> 
> BTW, I still would like to know, how could I access the contents of the 
> "real" CVSROOT, which drives the development server.
> 
> Years ago it was available on the public servers, and those scripts were 
> really good (ACLs, etc).
> 
> So I'm looking for the cfg.pm, avail and other stuff which the 
> committers sometimes hack on the cvs-all lists.
> 
> It seems that the structure somewhat changed and those scripts are only 
> on the main CVS server, not the public ones.

It's because there really are 4 CVS repositories now, which are just
exported as one though the cvsup mirror system.  E.g. the CVSROOT for
src/ is exported as CVSROOT-src/ .

Try having a look at http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/ .

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
FreeBSD Documentation Team
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