CVS access

Suhaib Siddiqi ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
Fri Aug 4 05:40:00 GMT 2000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [ mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> Collins
> Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 8:42 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: CVS access
> 
> 
> Hi,
>     I just tried to get the CVS xfree-sources, as per the CVS page, and I
> got the following error about two screens in
> 
> U cygwin-xfree/config/cf/xfree86.cf
> U cygwin-xfree/config/cf/xttMod.tmpl
> cvs [checkout aborted]: could not chdir to 
> cygwin-xfree/config/cf/cygwin.cf:
> Not a directory
> 
> CVS had downloaded a 6k file called config/cf/cygwin.cf earlier on.

No idea, I have seen that too.  It looks like a CVS bug. cygwin.cf is
not a directory and it should not try to read it as a directory.

> 
> Any hints/tips to work around this?

try again cvs update.

Suhaib

> 
> TIA,
> Rob


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