Re: Going further with GAR

Charles Lacour writes:

> I tried using cvs to "update gar", and it just hummed to itself and quit; 
> then I tried looking at the Makefile in /gar/meta/lnx-bbc. "fetch" looked 
> promising, but neither it nor "md5sum" did anything. (Actually, I ran 
> deep-fetch and deep-md5sum, by analogy with some of the commands mentioned. 
> That messed with the right set of files, but didn't update anything.
> 
> Reading the cvs manpage, I thought I'd misunderstood, and needed to run 
> "update" from within /gar, instead of "co gar" from "/". THAT complained that 
> I was missing a version file, and said to run "co gar". Trying that with all 
> the stuff in the tarball already there produced lots of errors that "xyz is 
> already there. Move it."

It might be a problem with your tarball.  The normal thing, when you
have an existing valid checkout, is that you do

cd gar; cvs update

and you should get everything updated with no errors.

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