[dev] Re: [cvs] cvs commit: CVSROOT options

[Mathieu Arnold]

Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:53:48PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've been trying to get a custom rcs flag to work, but I don't get it work,
> > what's the trick ?
> >
> 
> The trick varies depending on which version of BSD you are using;
> Free, Net and OpenBSD each have incompatible changes to their
> versions of CVS to implement this, and none of their patches
> were ever accepted by cvshome to be folded back into the main
> distro (I have no idea why).
>
> It's kind of annoying, since I can't rsync Horde's repository
> to my Solaris box, and do a local checkout from there, without
> deleting the custom files which breaks 'normal' CVS.  Ah well!

the trick is :
# uname
Linux
:)
but 
# cvs -d /cvs/freebsd co contrib_cvs
and a few patching everything just works fine now :)

-- 
Mathieu Arnold