Re: Getting started - failing miserably

[Joe Willmann]

I think I figured it out.
I was setting CVSROOT in my .cshrc file but it was being changed to 
something else later in the process.


"Joe Willmann" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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>I am trying to use CVS for the first time and not having much luck.
>
> I am ruinning YellowDog Linux on PPC.  Installed CVS version is 1.11.17 as 
> reported by cvs -version.
>
> I have created a directory /home/uj672c/cvs_dir for the archive.
>
> My linux shell is cshell.
>
> I added setenv CVSROOT /home/uj672c/cvs_dir to my .cshrc file.
>
> I issued the command "cvs init" and received
> 208 > cvs init
> cvs [init aborted]: cannot make directory /project/labtest.common/cm/cvs: 
> No such file or directory
>
> ls cvs_dir showed me an empty dir.  I would have expected that the CVSROOT 
> environment variable would have pointer to the cvs_dir.
>
> so I issued
>
> cvs -d $CVSROOT init
>
> Which was accepted without error and a ls of vcs_dir showed a directory 
> named CVSROOT with lots of contents.  So obviously the cvs init command 
> worked.
>
> So the first question: Why didn't "cvs init" command work?
>
> So now to the more interesting question.  I ran through the standard 
> exercize of
>
> mkdir tc
> mkdir tc/main
> mkdir tc/testing
>
> cd tc
> cvs import -m "Imported sources" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
>
> For which I received the following:
> 145 > cvs import -m "Imported" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
> cvs [import aborted]: /project/labtest.common/cm/cvs/CVSROOT: No such file 
> or directory
>
>
> So I tried
> cvs -d $CVSROOT import -m "Imported sources" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
>
> for which I received:
> 146 > cvs -d $CVSROOT import -m "Imported" yoyodyne/rdir yoyo start
> cvs [import aborted]: /home/uj672c/cvs_dir/CVSROOT/CVSROOT: No such file 
> or directory
>
> so tell me what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks.
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