From: Michel Dänzer <daenzerm@student.ethz.ch>
To: Andreas Tobler <toa@pop.agri.ch>
Cc: Linuxppc-Dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: XF4 Sources HELP
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:55:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <398A9323.7B72B918@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 398A8610.C4944925@pop.agri.ch
Andreas Tobler wrote:
> I'd like to enter the XF4 world, but I can't download the whole 40 or more
> MegaBytes. I have the 4.0.0 sources and the 4.0.1 diffs. Now question nbr1:
> how do I create the three tar.gz out of an expanded XF4 source tree?
Why would you want to create them at all?
> Next question, is it possible to update an expanded tree via cvs? I tried
> before but I got rejected:
> 'cvs server: cannot find module `xc' - ignored' , this was outside the xc
> dir.
The error suggests that something was wrong with the CVS root you specified.
> Does this really work or am I lost?
You can only update via CVS if there is a CVS/ directory in every source
directory which contains files describing the root of the repository etc.
Otherwise you have to checkout the whole tree from CVS first.
Michel
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