On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 09:26:40AM +0200, rsyk...@disroot.org wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> 
> I have a ports tree. (Most probably first obtained
> by downloading a .tar file.) I am able to update it
> with, e.g.,
> 
> ; CVSROOT=anon...@ftp.hostserver.de:/cvs
> ; cvs -d $CVSROOT -q up -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_1
> 
> After that I thought -- based on what I read at
> https://www.openbsd.org/anoncvs.html#CVSROOT
> -- that running just
> 
> ; cvs -q up -Pd -rOPENBSD_7_1
> 
> should work, but it does not: 
> 
> cvs update: in directory .:
> cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository 
> /cvs

looking at the line above, it looks like cvs is unhappy with whatever
you have in your CVS/Root file.

you can set things like this per user in your ~/.cvsrc file.

jmc

> cvs update: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
> cvs [update aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
> 
> Thanks for comments.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Ruda
> 

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