[Mailman-Developers] CVS update

[Greg Ward]

On 15 November 2002, bjoernk@gmx.net said:
> I would like to make an update via CVS to my Mailman 2.1b4 production
> system. I tried the following:
> 
> "cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.mailman.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mailman
> login"
> 
> and then simply hit "enter".
> 
> Then, I tried to use the following command:
> 
> "cvs update"
> 
> and then CVS tells me: no CVSROOT set. What path shall I use?

You can't update until you have checked out.  The correct sequence is

  cvs -d ... login
  cvs -d ... checkout mailman
  [... time passes, changes get checked in ...]
  cd mailman && cvs update

Note that the argument you passed to -d needs to be repeated for the
'checkout' command!

        Greg
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Greg Ward <gward@python.net>                         http://www.gerg.ca/
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