CVS instructions

David Rothenberger daveroth@acm.org
Tue Jan 20 22:24:00 GMT 2004


Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> "Once you have the latest sources, "cvs update" will get any
> changes since your last update."
> 
> A cvs update from src/ also downloads many other modules (I
> guess all from
> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/?cvsroot=src),
> not just the changes from a winsup checkout:
> 
> U djunpack.bat
> U bfd/COPYING
> U bfd/ChangeLog
> ...
> 
> Am I missing something obvious from the instructions ?

No.

You can either check out a new tree everytime you want to update.  Or, 
what I do is execute "cvs -q update -l && cvs -q update *" from the src 
directory.  This will get new file elements in the src directory and then 
update all existing subdirectories.

Dave





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