Re: [Lcd4linux-devel] [lcd4linux] How to get started with lcd4linux

[Till H. (Lists) <li...@ha...>]

On Friday 29 September 2006 16:59, Robert Denton wrote:
> cvs client but kept running into password prompts. sf.net offers anon
> access but I couldn't quite work that out so... For the sake of this
> list and future googlers here is what I did:

=46rom the Wiki:

Anonymous CVS Access

> If you want to stay with the bleeding edge development of lcd4linux, you =
may
> have a look at the CVS web interface.=20
>
> LCD4Linux's CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver)=
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CVS
> with the following instruction set:=20
>
> cvs -d:pserver:ano...@lc...:/cvsroot/lcd4linux=
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login
> cvs -z9=20
=2Dd:pserver:ano...@lc...:/cvsroot/lcd4linux co=
=20
lcd4linux
>
> When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.
>
> The second command will create a directory 'lcd4linux' for you, containing
> the current CVS code. If you want to update your local dir (which you sho=
uld
> do on a regular basis), use the following command (inside the lcd4linux
> directory):  =20
>
> cvs -z9 update -dPR

I did it that way and it works, believe me.

I honestyl don't think that doing things different than the manual says and=
=20
then asking for help is very useful. There's a reason for those instruction=
s=20
and if they don't work for you it's probably a clever idea to figure out wh=
y.=20
But trying to circumvent everything in some creative way sure isn't a good=
=20
idea.

Till=20



>
> rsync -av rsync://lcd4linux.cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/lcd4linux/* .
>
> This worked out much better for me than CVS, and I got all of the
> files in the repo without complaint, except... All files were
> downloaded with ',v' appended to the filenames!  So here is the one-
> liner I used to deal with that:
>
> perl -e 'foreach $old (glob "*,v"){$new =3D $old, $new =3D~ s/,v
> $//;rename $old, $new;}'
>
> Getting it to configure is a different story.  I am still working on
> that.  Right now I am getting errors indicating my 'missing script is
> either too old or missing'.
>
> Any ideas what that means?
>
> On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:17 AM, Michael Reinelt wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> >
> >> Looking through the CVS repos on sf.net, I see that there are many
> >> many files that have been updated in the last few weeks, and last few
> >> months. I am curious why you are not including all of this stuff in
> >> the subversion repo in your trac pages?  I work with svn on a daily
> >> basis and it would be a simple matter for me to tarball all of the
> >> current files (for anyone's benefit not just mine) if they were all
> >> in there.
> >
> > We are planning to switch to SVN on trac, but I couldn't find the time
> > to migrate the repository yet.
> >
> >> I am not as adept with CVS, indeed I don't even have an CVS client
> >> handy.  Any plans to put your project in subversion?  And how
> >> troublesome would it be for you to tarball the current working set
> >> for me to use?
> >
> > Well, I don't like the idea of tarballs, because they're out of
> > date as
> > soon as they are created :-)
> >
> > Please get yourself a CVS client and use the CVS repo. Basic CVS
> > handling should be the same as with svn.
> >
> >
> >
> > bye, Michael
> >
> > --
> > Michael Reinelt <re...@eu...>
> > http://home.pages.at/reinelt
> > GPG-Key 0xDF13BA50
> > ICQ #288386781
>
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