Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Error trying to build from cvs

[Frank Küster]

David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:

> Frank Küster <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Frank Küster <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm wondering what I am doing wrong here:
>>>>
>>>> $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/auctex export -rHEAD auctex
>> [...]
>>> Don't specify any revision.
>>
>> $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/auctex export auctex
>> cvs [export aborted]: must specify a tag or date
>> $
>>
>> You mean I need to checkout and delete all the CVS directories?
>
> What are you actually trying to do?  If you want to export a
> particular release, you should use the appropriate release tag.  Other
> than that, exporting a particular date should also work.

I want to create a package "auctex-snapshot" that can be easily updated
to the current CVS version whenever I feel like doing that.  Therefore I
do not want to have a particular tag or date, just HEAD, and I don't
need the CVS subdirs.

But it's not a big deal to just remove them...

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)