[Xastir] re: More Xastir questions.

[Brian D Heaton]

I tend to use..

cvs -z3 update -dP

That way I'll also catch directory changes and prune out anything that
has been removed.

		THX/BDH


On Sun, 2004-05-09 at 17:38, Curt Mills wrote:
> On Sun, 9 May 2004, KK6RW wrote:
> 
> > When I try to do the cvs update, I get an error saying: CVS Update: No
> > CVSROOT specified! Please use the '-d' option cvs [update aborted]: or set
> > the CVSROOT enviroment variable.
> >
> > This error message seems to follow along with other suggestion that I need
> > to go to the root user using 'su'
> 
> Nope.  What you need to do is go to your randy/src/xastir directory,
> then type the command.
> 
> CVS uses some special files located in subdirectories called "CVS".
> If there isn't a "CVS" subdirectory below where you currently are
> at, then CVS doesn't know what repository you're trying to talk to,
> or what set of source code from that repository to fetch.  Once you
> fetch the CVS archive the first time, all the sources are snagged,
> the CVS subdirectories are created and populated with the CVS
> book-keeping information, and you're good to go.
> 
> I can do this:
> 
>     cd
>     cvs update
> 
> And get the same type of error, because I'm at my home directory
> then, not the Xastir source directory.
> 
> If I do this instead:
> 
>     cd src/xastir
>     cvs update
> 
> Then I'll get the latest updates.