> > $ sudo cvs -danon...@anoncvs1.ca.openbsd.org:/cvs up -dP > > Uh, bad idea. Do not run cvs as root. > You don't want /usr/src owned by root. > > That way, you would have to su to root whenever you edit a source > file. You do not want to do things as root when it is not needed. > In particular, neither of tar -x, cvs co, cvs up, diff, patch > and make (except make install and friends, of course) want root. > > Yours, > Ingo
The FAQ uses root all over the place for this. Maybe we should change that. http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#BldGetSrc
