Re: binutils+gdb CVS module

Stephen Biggs
2003-08-18T15:10:11Z

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:54, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:51:26PM +0300, Stephen Biggs wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:56, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 05:04:44AM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> > > > The normal workaround is to do "cvs update" almost all of the time, with
> > > > no "-d", and to handle new top-level files and directories specially.
> > > > Fortunately they don't appear very often (a few times a year).
> > >
> > > The trick is to update directories the same way you checked them out
> > > initially: say "cvs -d <root> co gdb+binutils" from the level above
> > > src, just like the first time. That gets the right set of new files.
> > >
> >
> > I did a checkout like so:
> > $ cd ~/cvs
> > $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src login
> > $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src checkout
> > binutils+gdb
> >
> > ... so, if I have ~/cvs/src being the top of my binutils+gdb tree (with
> > NO mention anywhere of binutils+gdb in the tree, fitting what Michael
> > said), from the level above, if I understand you correctly?
> >
> > This doesn't work.
> > $ cd ~/cvs
> > $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/src update -R -d -P
> > binutils+gdb
> > cvs server: Updating binutils+gdb
> > cvs server: cannot open directory /cvs/src/binutils+gdb: No such file or
> > directory
> > cvs server: skipping directory binutils+gdb
> > $
> >
> > What did I do wrong?
>
> Try using "checkout" the second time too. That's the key - update
> doesn't check the modules file, only checkout does. Don't need to give
> it any other options than you did the first time.

Yes. That did the trick. Thanks for the CVS tip!

As Bob Rossi said: VERY cool!

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> Daniel Jacobowitz
> MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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