Subject: Re: Updating a Stable BSD Release
To: Richard Ibbotson <richard@sheflug.co.uk>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/06/2003 17:28:07
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 21:59:32 +0100 (BST), Richard Ibbotson
<richard@sheflug.co.uk> wrote:
>  To update an existing source tree:
> 
>         $ cd /usr/src
>         $ cvs update -dP"
> 
> All that's happening is that I get a large pile of text falling down
> the screen which says... "cvs update: No CVSROOT specified! Please use
> the -d option."  Using the -d option results in another pile of text
> on the screen.

Hmm.  What says "cat CVS/Root"?  In the absence of a command-line option,
that's where cvs gets its root from.  

> Sorry to ask here bit man pages aren't working either so not
> much info available to read.  

The cvs info pages are available on cvshome.org and the NetBSD man pages
are on man.netbsd.org.  

--jkl