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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: CVSup and the CVS repository
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 20:21:58 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Test wrote:
> 
> I have been having a tremndous amount of trouble trying to get the CVS
> repository installed on my system (FreeBSD 2.2.1).  CVSup (version
> 15.1) seems to indicate that it has succeeded (and it does build the
> list file), but it does not create the CVS repository.  By this, I
> mean it does not create the CVSROOT/ directory needed by the 'cvs'
> utility.
> 
> Here is my cvsup supfile
> 
>         *default release=cvs tag=.

There's your problem - who told you to put "tag=." there when grabbing
the CVS bits?  No no no! :)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.