At 12:52 5/08/2002, Piers Hearn wrote:
>At 12:36 5/08/2002, Christopher Vance wrote:
>>On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:27:03AM +1000, J. Piers Hearn wrote:
>>: Hi, I'm trying to set up a mirror of the NetBSD source tree, but I'm having
>>: trouble configuring my cvsupd/cvs. I've got the source tree pulled down,
>>: using cvsup as described in the Tracking NetBSD-current page, but I'm not
>>: sure how I should be configuring cvsupd to allow me to cvs in from my other
>>: machines.
>>
>>cvsupd is the server for cvsup clients
>>
>>cvs is the server for cvs clients
>>
>>Which do you want to use?
>
>Ah that could be my problem. I wasn't too sure which server I should be 
>trying to get working. I didn't realise cvs was both client and server. Ok 
>then, what I want to be able to do is run cvs client on machine A to 
>connect to machine B which has the NetBSD source tree on it. What do I 
>need to do?

Ok I've now progressed to the stage of managing a successful login to my 
cvs pserver. However when I attempt to do an update on pkgsrc, I get:
Protocol error: 'Directory' missingE Protocol error: 'Directory' missingE 
Protocol error: 'Directory' missingE  etc etc,

Finally followed by:
protocol error: directory '/cvsroot/pkgsrc' not within root 
'/usr/local/cvsroot'

The command I'm using from the client end is just
cvs -d :pserver:mylogin@mymachine:/usr/local/cvsroot update -PAd pkgsrc

The following line is in my inetd.conf:
cvspserver      stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/pkg/bin/cvs        cvs 
-f --allow-root=/usr/local/cvsroot/ pserver

And the files are located on the server in /usr/local/cvsroot.

Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks,
         Piers