Re: CVS doesn't like its own checkouts???

[Jonathan Sergent <sergent+gnome kgb etla net>]

In message <199812191654.LAA13625@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu>, 
"Brandon S. Allbery" writes:
 ] (. .ENV-gnome; cvs -z4 get -rGNOME_STABLE gnome-libs gnome-core)
 ] 
 ] .ENV-gnome points to the DNS round-robin currently, although I have a
 ] .ENV-fixme that points to va.debian.org as a backup :-)
 ] 
 ] As it turns out, I was wrong about it being every file in the module; it's
 ] the linked modules (macros, libvfs, libart_lgpl, ...) that won't update
 ] properly.
 ] 
 ] This is happening at home (RH5.0 with RH5.2's CVS package) and at work
 ] (SPARC Ultra 10, Solaris 2.5.1, cvs-1.10.4).

What is cvs get?  Is it equivalent to checkout?  If so, then what you
want is "cvs update -d", i.e. 

  (. .ENV-gnome; cvs -z4 update -Pd -rGNOME_STABLE gnome-libs gnome-core)

(the -P removes empty directories too, just good on general principle)

since checkout is not equivalent to update.


--jss.