Subject: Re: Problem updating for "NetBSD Security Advisory"
To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
From: John Fisher <jdf@rse.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/13/2003 15:06:22
On Thursday 13 March 2003 11:50 am, you wrote:

> >And the result:
> >cvs server: Updating usr.bin/file
> >cvs server: cannot open directory /cvsroot/basesrc/usr.bin/file: No su=
ch \=20
> >file or directory
> >cvs server: skipping directory usr.bin/file
> >
> >My sources for NetBSD-1.6 are from 11-02-2002.
>=20
> i don't recall exactly *when* this was done, but the myriad of cvs
> collections (like "basesrc and "gnusrc" and "sharesrc", etc) were
> merged back together under one "src".
>=20
> try this command in the file source directory
>=20
>    find . -name Repository | \
>       xargs perl -i -pe 's:^(/cvsroot/)?(base|share|gnu|sys)src/:src/:'
>=20
> and then try to update again.  if the update works, you may wish to
> run that same command at the root of your source tree.


So far this seems to have worked great!  For some reason though it did no=
t=20
want to change the Repository file in usr/src/CVS.  But that was the only=
=20
one, so I changed it by hand.=20

Thank you for your help,

John


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> note, only the source tree, not the pkgsrc tree, or the xsrc tree.
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