Subject: Re: What am I supposed to do with usr.sbin/config ?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@nimenees.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/30/2002 15:19:24
On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:16:26AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:41:15PM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> > 	try this:
> > cvs co -l src   # This should get the base directories and files
> > cvs up -dP src  # This fills everything else in.
> 
> No. Because of the module alias tricks, if e.g. usr.sbin/config (which is
> in a different module from usr.sbin) doesn't exists cvs up -dP won't
> create it.
	You haven't actually tried this.  It works.  the checkout command grabs:
src
src/gnu
src/share
src/sys
src/usr.sbin/config

and all files immediately in those directories.  That is enough for the update
command to get everything else.

eric