Re: Problems while trying to update DFBSD

[Benedikt Müller <mad_mueller@xxxxxx>]

Hehe, ok. :)
It works now. I think the problem is, that the checkout isn't mentioned 
in the readmes/helpfiles (at least in these I found).

wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Benedikt Mrüller wrote:
>
>
> > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:30:06 +0200
> > From: "[ISO-8859-1] Benedikt Mrüller" <mad_mueller@xxxxxx>
> > Newsgroups: dragonfly.users
> > Subject: Re: Problems while trying to update DFBSD
> >
> > Ah, okay. It seems I haven't correctly downloaded the source-tree.
> > There is a file named /usr/src/etc/mtree/BSD.root.dist,v. Most files in
> > /usr/src are ending with ,v.
> > I'll check some readmes what went wrong...
>
>
> As noted in previous threads, it seems you originally installed a
> complete 'repository' of the sources, as opposed to a 'checked-out'
> (and ready-to-compile) copy of the original CVS repository.
>
> The FreeBSD/DFly tradition is to use cvsup rather than cvs to
> 'check-out' the source code.  This gives you the already
> 'checked-out' copy of sources rather than the original CVS
> repository.  Typically, only developers or maintainers of
> a CVS mirror would be interested in maintaining a copy
> of the entire CVS repository.
>
> Most of us lamers just use cvsup to check out a copy of the
> source code.  The phrase 'check out' comes from one of the
> commands used with the cvs utility -- read the cvs manpage
> if you want to know more.  (Eventually you will actually
> *want* to know how to use cvs, believe-it-or-not ;-)