From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <398A9323.7B72B918@student.ethz.ch> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:55:47 +0200 From: Michel Dänzer MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Tobler CC: Linuxppc-Dev Subject: Re: XF4 Sources HELP References: <398A8610.C4944925@pop.agri.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- What do you mean, my birth certificate expired? ______________________________________________________________________________ Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86, Team *AMIGA*, AUGS ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/