Re: cvs update fails, complains 'No CVSROOT specified' even when it is set

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello,

* On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:10:27PM -0700 Neeraj Mahajan wrote:
 
> I am having this weird problem - when I issue cvs update it returns an error.
> The following steps would give more details:
> 
> $ cd ~/dev
> $ echo $CVSROOT
> somecvsserver.com:/CVSROOT
[...]
> Any idea what the problem is?

Depending upon which access method you are using, prepend the access
method (":pserver:", ":ext:", ...) before your CVSROOT.

> One thing that I observed is that when using SmartCVS, it always executes the 
> cvs commands from the base dir ~/dev/someproj/neerajprojects and not from 
> ~/dev/someproj.

I think you should ask on a SmartCVS mailing list for this one.

HTH,
   Spiro.

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