Re: 1 Q about CVS and 1 Q about AFFS in dev-kernel (was Re: How to I getthe latest APUS development kernel?)

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Robert Ramiega wrote:

> 1. some time ago i checkouted 2.4.0-test4 from CVS, than i updated it to
> latest (test7). After this make oldconfig failed with message about some
> missing Configure.in in one of subdirs. Unfortunately i just wiped the
> sources and didn't write down the message. Anyway after this i simply
> checkout from CVS again and this time make oldconfig didn't complain. Anyone
> can explain this to me?

It's best to always run 'cvs update -dP' so that old directories get pruned
and new ones created automatically. You can set default options for all cvs
commands in ~/.cvsrc, here's mine:

cvs -z4
diff -u
update -dP
checkout -P


Michel


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