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First, I apologize for the duplication of my last message. Mailer 
hiccough. Now, back to CVS.

On Sunday, April 21, 2002, at 09:01 AM, Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 8:20 PM -0400 2002/04/20, Geoff Adams wrote:
>
>>  The 'cvs login' part looks good.
>>
>>  After that, you'll need to cd into your src directory.
>
> 	This is contrary to the "How to Update with CVS" documentation 
> that I have found in chapter 18.1 in the NetBSD Guide, which in HTML 
> form in the English language, is located at 
> <http://www.mclink.it/personal/MG2508/nbsdeng/chap-cvs.html#AEN4890>. 
> Specifically, it says:
>
> | To get the sources from scratch without having anything in /usr/src
> |
> | % setenv CVSROOT :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
> | % cd /usr
> | % cvs login
> | password: anoncvs
> | % cvs checkout -rnetbsd-1-5 -PA src
>
> ....
>
> 	In my examples, I was starting from the /usr directory, as 
> specified in the instructions.

Right, and that's all correct for the *checkout* command. The 'cvs 
checkout' command is for getting the source for the first time, so you 
need to specify a CVSROOT, and you need to specify a module name (such 
as src). CVS will check out the module and deposit the results in a new 
directory of the name of the module. (It will lay down the checked-out 
files on top of an existing directory, if one exists and is under CVS 
control. Also, there are cases where modules will check out into a 
different directory than the module name; we'll ignore such details for 
the moment.)

The 'cvs update' command is used to update what you already have, so you 
need to be in an already-checked-out directory, and it will, by default, 
use the CVSROOT specified in the various CVS directories' Root files. 
(That can be overridden by using the '-d' option to cvs.) Note that the 
optional file/directory arguments to the 'update' command are not 
modules, as they are for 'checkout,' but files and directories in your 
locally checked-out working copy that you want updated.

So: cd to /usr for 'cvs checkout'; cd /usr/src for 'cvs update'. (Using 
your particular path examples.)

- - Geoff
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