On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> At 1:46 PM -0600 3/4/03, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> >On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> >
> >>  At 2:39 PM -0500 3/4/03, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> >>  >"Peter C. Wallace" <pcw@mesanet.com> wrote:
> >>  >
> >>  >>  CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot

This is a no-op within an existing checkout-out tree, but you could
force the issue with "cvs -d $CVSROOT update ... (as before)".

> >>  >>  freeby:/usr/src# cvs update -d -P -r netbsd-1-6
> >>gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail
> >>  >>  cvs server: Updating gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail
> >>  >>  cvs server: cannot open directory
> >>  >>/cvsroot/gnusrc/gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail:
> >>  >>  No such file or directory
> >>  >>  cvs server: skipping directory gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail
> >>  >
> >>  >http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/#cvsmerge200212
> >>
> >>  Isn't this only for people running -current, or do people running
> >>  straight 1.6 need to do this?
> >
> >The change was to the cvs repository, so it doesn't matter what you're
> >running.
>
> Thanks! (That was not at all clear from the announcement.)
>
> But it still doesn't help. After running the script on /usr/src,
> getting the sendmail patches still fails on a vanilla 1.6 system:
>
> # cvs update -d -P -r netbsd-1-6 gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail
> anoncvs.netbsd.org: Connection refused
> cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if any)
> #

You're in "/usr/src", right? After running the script, what are the
contents of gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail/CVS/Repository and
gnu/dist/sendmail/sendmail/CVS/Root, and CVS/Repository and CVS/Root
at the top-level?


Frederick