cvs -d fails

YONETANI Tomokazu qhwt+dfly at les.ath.cx
Thu Jul 27 06:48:59 PDT 2006


On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:17:29PM +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 01:23:22PM +0200, christian hennig wrote:
> > i install 1.6 on my laptop, all is fine. But now i try:
> >  # cd /usr/
> >  # cvs -d anoncvs at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot co pkgsrc
> > but i get a time out. 
> 
> Try
> # cvs -d pserver:anoncvs at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot co pkgsrc

Oops, missing a colon before "pserver" keyword...
cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot co pkgsrc

But apparently it accepts a password-less ssh connection too,
as written in HowToPkgsrc page in our wiki.  Not sure if it's
preferred way to fetch pkgsrc source, though.





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