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Re: Building latest Beta Failure

To: "Joseph I. Davida" <jd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Building latest Beta Failure
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 14:05:53 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <200101031138.f03BcaZ21215@xxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
"Joseph I. Davida" wrote:

> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 02:42:47PM +0000, Joseph I. Davida wrote:
> > >       I had enabled dmapi option during configuration.
> > >       If this feature is not ready, perhaps the config
> > >       should grey it out completely?
> >
> > Or the user should use -d when doing a CVS update to grab new directories ?
> >
> > -Andi

cvs has two -d options
cvs -d <dir> cmd
specifies the CVSROOT dir
cvs -d <dir> update -d
is a different flag the tells cvs up pull out any new directories.

>
>         Well, the manpage says -d option is for setting the root directory:
>
> -d CVS_root_directory
>               Use CVS_root_directory as the root directory  path­
>               name  of  the  master source repository.  Overrides
>               the setting of the  CVSROOT  environment  variable.
>               This value should be specified as an absolute path­
>               name.
>
>         Or for creating a new directory in your version of the
>         tree (assuming you KNOW that the source cvs tree has the
>         new directgory name) and cvs update -d new_dir will bring
>         in new_dir. But this requires that you know the new_dir
>         name on the source repository in order to get it's
>         contents. Catch 22?

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Russell Cattelan
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