On 08/28/14 02:26, Joel Rees wrote: > Finally getting a chance to look at this again, and I had a couple of > questions. > > One, am I right that cvs co and cvs get are basically the same thing? > > (get, per http://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html , > and co, per http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Bld .)
from "man cvs" : checkout [options] modules... Requires: repository. Changes: working directory. Synonyms: co, get Make a working directory containing copies of the source files specified by modules. You must execute `cvs checkout' before using most of the other cvs commands, since most of them operate on your working directory. so...yes. > The other, assuming that the last package showing update (U) before the > broken pipe is now something like x11/xfce4, would it make sense to, with > the current working directory still at /usr, issue > > sudo cvs -d$CVSROOT co -P ports/x11 > > or > > cvs -qd anon...@anoncvs.jp.openbsd.org:/cvs get -P ports/x11 > > just to be really, really, paranoid sure? no, I'd just do a "cvs -Pd up" within the ports directory. Updating your tree will restore any missing files. Nick.