On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:34:18AM -0600, Rich Neswold wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to check out 'src' from the anoncvs servers (I've tried the
> main site and the two US mirrors.) Each time I've tried, the check-out
> fails with the following messages:
> 
> cvs update: in directory gnu/dist/cvs:
> cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> cvs update: move away gnu/dist/cvs/AUTHORS; it is in the way
> C src/gnu/dist/cvs/AUTHORS
> U src/gnu/dist/cvs/BUGS
> 
> It takes a while for the failure to happen because it successfully
> pulls over hundreds of files before it stops. After 'cvs' exits, there
> is no 'src'gnu'dist'cvs' directory at all. I'm using the cvs client on
> OSX, so it's version 1.10 (I don't think this should matter.)
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here? I've checked out source on other
> machines over the years, so I have some familiarity in doing this.

I guess you're checking out on HFS+. This filesystem is case-insensitive,
and so CVS is confusing src/gnu/dist/cvs (which contains the cvs sources in
the NetBSD tree) with src/gnu/dist/CVS (which contains administrative files
for CVS itself). 

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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