John Cruz writes:

>  >    What particularly of cvsup do you find confusing?
>   
>  Specifically it would be the supfile stuff, everything I've been
>  reading says "if you put in the wrong thing here, you can screw
>  the whole system up",

        A bad supfile will mess up _the source tree_; one could
possibly screw up the system by setting "prefix=/" ... but that's
rather farfetched.
        And the cure for a garbled source tree is a) put the right
stuff in the supfile then b) "rm -rf /usr/src/*" and c) re-run cvsup.


                                        Robert Huff

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