Re: Going further with GAR

On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:46:22PM -0800, Nick Moffitt wrote:
> begin  The ASCII Floating Head of Seth David Schoen  quotation:
> > 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.

> 	If one were to run "cvs update" from within an unpacked
> TARBALL, one would see the results.  It sounds like he's unpacking a
> tarball (which means NO CVS), and then of course that unpacked tarball
> is in the way when he tries to do a fresh cvs checkout.

> 	If you want to use cvs, remove your unpacked tarball.

	Yeah, this is exactly what I ran into...  If you follow the
instructions on the web site exactly, and you download the tarball
"with sources" you end up very out of date and things don't even agree
with what the rest of the pages claim (like it doesn't build the iso
image the page says it does).  Either the web pages need some serious
clarifying or those tarballs need to be totally rebuilt to something
resembling what the web pages claim or (most likely) both.  If you include
the appropriate CVS meta directories in the tarballs and include the
instructions for loging into the CVS server, they will also work to prime
the CVS checkout which is exactly what some of us expected and exactly what
we didn't get.  :-)

	With all the "great" information on "getting started with GAR"
it seems I consistently overlooked the instructions on how to checkout
from CVS and had to hunt for it intensely till I found it and followed
those instructions INSTEAD of the instructions to download those tarballs.
You could add some more explicit instructions on accessing and checking out
from the CVS repository on the "getting started with GAR" pages.  I
don't think those tarballs are doing anything real useful...

	Mike
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