1) What is there to be confused about? Try a different cvs mirror or try again later. Probably heavy load from everyone trying to pull -stable at once.
2) AFAIK, the patch branch and the stable branch are one and the same. Note that these may not necessarily be the same as the release branch with errata patches applied. --david On 1/9/06, Russell Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the recent release of two patches I have finally been forced to > come to grips with CVS and the source tree. > > I have unpacked the source tarballs on the target machine and read through > > http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#starting > and > http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#CVSROOT > > following the examples in the latter: > > -bash-3.00$ export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs > -bash-3.00$ cvs -q up -rOPENBSD_3_8 -Pd > ssh: connect to host anoncvs1.usa.openbsd.org port 22: Connection refused > cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if > any) > -bash-3.00$ ssh anoncvs1.usa.openbsd.org > ssh: connect to host anoncvs1.usa.openbsd.org port 22: Connection refused > > > I'm confused... > > Also http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#CVSROOT refers to the 'patch > branch' and 'current' -- I assume 'patch branch' is really stable ?? > > cheers, Russell
