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<td>Set the CVSROOT environment variable:&nbsp;</td>
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<td BGCOLOR="#DFDFDF">For sh, bash, ksh, or similar shells:
<p>$ export CVSROOT=':pserver:cvs@oss.sgi.com:/cvs'
<p>For csh or tcsh shells:&nbsp;
<p>&nbsp;$ setenv CVSROOT&nbsp; :pserver:cvs@oss.sgi.com:/cvs
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<td>You might want to put this in your login script.&nbsp;
<p>&nbsp;Execute the command:&nbsp;</td>
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<br><tt>$ cvs login</tt>
<br><i>(the password is "</i>cvs<i>")</i></td>
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<td>This only needs to be done ONCE, not every time you access CVS.&nbsp;
<p>Now grab linux-2.4-xfs to download the development tree.
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<p>Execute the following to download the
development tree for the first time:&nbsp;</td>
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<tt>$ cvs -z3 checkout linux-2.4-xfs</tt>
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<td>There is also a 2.5 development tree available.  To check it
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<tt>$ cvs -z3 checkout linux-2.5-xfs</tt>
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<p>After you have checked the code out, you can use:&nbsp;</td>
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<br><tt>$ cvs -z3 update -d</tt></td>
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<td>to update your copy to the latest version from the CVS server&nbsp;
and then rebuild.

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You can also download XFS using CVSup.  For instructions on
checking the tree out of CVSup, see the
<a href="cvsup.html">
CVSup download instructions</a>.

<p> <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/new_users.html">CVS for new users</a>
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