In article <20041210.070931.68546826.johan@giantfoo.org>,
	johan@giantfoo.org (Johan A.van Zanten) writes:
> 
> I had a NetBSD 2.0 /usr/src circa RC4.  I was going to update it with
> anoncvs to save the bandwidth of FTPing the .tar.gz files.  So i did:
>
> cvs update -d -P -r netbsd-2-0
> 
> 
> And i get :
> 
> cvs update: Updating distrib/hp300/miniroot
> U distrib/hp300/miniroot/Makefile.inc
> U distrib/hp300/miniroot/dot.profile
> U distrib/hp300/miniroot/install.md
> U distrib/hp300/miniroot/list
> cvs update: Updating distrib/hp300/miniroot/inst
> cvs [update aborted]: unable to parse /cvsroot/src/distrib/hp300/miniroot/inst/Attic/dot.profile,v; `author' not in the expected place
> 
> 
> 
> ... which seems to hose the update.
> 
>  I tried removing the distrib/hp300/miniroot directory in case that would
>  get around the problem, but it doesn't seem to have helped.

It sounds like the sources on the server are corrupt, but I have no
such trouble with a clean checkout of that directory from anoncvs. The
original sources came from an ISO 9660 image? What does "cat CVS/Root"
show? If it's not ":pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot", try
specifying the main server as that, with the "-d" argument.


Frederick