Re: mutt config hosed?

[David Terrell <dbt@meat.net>]

On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 11:21:27PM +0000, Alex Holst wrote:
> Quoting Marco S Hyman (marc@snafu.org):
> > 	$ cd /usr/ports
> > 	$ cvs -q -d anoncvs@some.anon.server:/cvs up -PAd
> > 
> > That's so hard?  If you don't want to update your whole tree
> > cd to /usr/ports/mail/mutt and then issue the cvs command.
> 
> Odd. That never works for me, even though I thought it would. I have to go
> 
> $ cd /usr
> $ cvs -q up -PAd ports/mail/mutt
> 
> if I want to upgrade a single port. I can't just switch to the directory and
> do a CVS upgrade. Of course, I can't remember the error message, so I don't
> even know why I'm typing this.

Make sure you're doing a cvs update and not a cvs checkout.  Also make sure
you have a CVS directory with the appropriate stuff in it.

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