On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 07:19 +0200, Michael Kukat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 20 May 2005, Robert Zagarello wrote:
> > The Guide says I can use cvs update -Pd for PKGSRC
> > while the install manual says to delete pkgsrc
> > altogether and download the entire package source
> > again.
> 
> A CVS update only works, if you got your pkgsrc by cvs export. Otherwise, all
> those CVS directories and the files in them are either missing or contain the
> wrong data.

That's not right.  'cvs export' fetches a copy of the source tree but
_removes_ the CVS directories from it, so you cannot later do an update.
OTOH, 'cvs checkout' is what you want, as it keeps the CVS directories
in your working copy.

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