On 2022/07/28 14:01, rsyk...@disroot.org wrote: > Stuart Henderson <stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > On 2022-07-28, rsyk...@disroot.org <rsyk...@disroot.org> wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > > > > > > I have a ports tree. (Most probably first obtained > > > by downloading a .tar file.) I am able to update it > > > with, e.g., > > > > > > ; CVSROOT=anon...@ftp.hostserver.de:/cvs > > > ; cvs -d $CVSROOT -q up -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_1 > > > > > > After that I thought -- based on what I read at > > > https://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#CVSROOT > > > -- that running just > > > > > > ; cvs -q up -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_1 > > > > > > should work, but it does not: > > > > > > cvs update: in directory .: > > > cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent > > > repository /cvs > > > cvs update: No CVSROOT specified! Please use the `-d' option > > > cvs [update aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable. > > > > > > Thanks for comments. > > > > Either use -d, or set CVSROOT, or replace CVS/Root files with ones > > containing the path to the repo (cvschroot from the cvsutils package > > makes this easy). If your original checkout had been done via anoncvs > > you wouldn't have needed to do this. (Also ports.tar.gz misses some > > files - run "cvs up -Pd" across the whole tree to fetch them). > > Ok. Now I perhaps gained some of the missing understanding, but > still not full. > > So if I obtain the tree by downloading a .tar, it is not enough > to just supply -d to cvs once and next time run cvs without the -d; > I must set up the CVSROOT env variable or use the cvschroot command. > > If you get the original tree by cvs (with some -d), the next > time you can run cvs without the -d (and without the need to set up > the environmental CVSROOT). > > But then, one last thing: if I obtain a tree with a certain cvs -d > CVSROOT1, then run cvs -d CVSROOT2, and finally run cvs without -d, > what CVSROOT will be used in the last case? I hope it will be > CVSROOT1, won't it? (Otherwise I would not understand why starting > with a .tar and running subsequently cvs -d is not enough to then > run cvs without the -d...)
Yes To make things easier for me, I use a shell alias "acvs" $ alias acvs acvs='/usr/bin/cvs -d $CVSROOT ' (and a corresponding one that I use for the private server rather than anonymous cvs)
