Re: let's see the patches

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

> Aram Mirzadeh wrote:
> > 
> > I have somewhat automated this formyself, and it was pretty easy.  I'm 
> > taking a 'cvs update' from hyperreal at 6am, and 6pm everyday by cron.
> > Then I tar that same directory to my personal box every 3 hours, so when
> > I go home, I'll have the latest copy of hyperreal +/- any changes I have
> > made to it.   I don't think it's as hard as people have thought it would be. 
> > 
> 
> Hmmm... well, I'd like to simply be able to start using CVS. I've installed
> it here on this end, but have 2 problems:
> 
> 	1. On hyperreal, I'm told that I lack permissions to
> 	   update history, so I can't checkout apache
> 	2. Here, I'm told that when the remore server starts up, that
> 	   I lack a CVSROOT environmental variable... Of course, I have
> 	   this set in my .profile, which is doesn't look like
> 	   rsh reads, so I need to pass this somehow to hyperreal
> 	   when I access it remotely.
> 
> How do others have their remote setups configured? I'm itching to get
> started...

My suggestion is to use the -d flag. I've been periodically doing 
the following.

cvs -d hyperreal.com:/export/home/cvs checkout apache