On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 05:37:50PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 08:16:08PM -0700, Brad Volz wrote:
> > 
> > My last two attempts to update pkgsrc have produced the same results :
> > - ---
> > # cd /usr/src
> > # cvs update -rnetbsd-1-6 -d -P pkgsrc
> > cvs server: Updating pkgsrc
> > cvs server: Updating pkgsrc/misc
> > cvs server: Updating pkgsrc/misc/bidwatcher
> > cvs server: Updating pkgsrc/misc/bidwatcher/patches
> > anoncvs.netbsd.org: Connection refused
> > cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
> > - ---
> 
> How do you update ? cvs over ssh or pserver ?
> I suspect some of the CVS/* files have wrong info. Try to force the CVS
> server type:
> cvs -d $CVSROOT update -rnetbsd-1-6 -d -P pkgsrc

I am currently using the pserver to update.

Forcing the server type  seems to have fixed the issue.  I did note before
the actual update started that a number of directories were output
with a '?' at the begining of the line.

Many thanks for the suggestion.

Brad