Subject: Re: cvs: is it normal?
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Geert Hendrickx <geert.hendrickx@ua.ac.be>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/02/2005 14:18:05
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:13:16AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> That matches an experience of mine.

Same here.  

> The easiest fix is to write a little script that sets all of the
> CVS/Root entries to the same thing.  Failing that, you'll probably have 
> to wipe the tree and fetch a new one.

I use this (from the command line) :

for ROOT in `find /usr/pkgsrc -name Root | grep '/CVS/Root'`
do
	cp /tmp/Root $ROOT
done

I used this recently after anoncvs.be.netbsd.org died (to switch to .fr).  

If you have pkgsrc/wip, move it out of your pkgsrc tree before doing this!  

GH