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Re: Setting up CVS


From: Mark D. Baushke
Subject: Re: Setting up CVS
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:31:04 -0700

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Michael Satterwhite <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm trying to setup CVS on a Linux box. I've created the directory for the
> repository, and set CVSROOT. When I try to import a project, I get the
> error:
> 
>         cvs import: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
>         cvs [import aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.
> 
> Immediately after that, I display the environment variable and get the
> following
> 
>         >echo $CVSROOT
>         /backups.save/CVS
>
> Directory CVS *DOES* exist under /backups.save as shown:
> 
>         > ls -l /backups.save/CVS
>         total 0
>         drwxr-xr-x  2 michael users 48 2004-09-13 08:37 CVSROOT
> 
> What am I doing wrong? It appears that CVS is ignoring the CVSROOT
> environment variable.

If you are using a bourne shell variant

    export CVSROOT

if you are using a C shell variant (csh or tcsh)

    setenv CVSROOT /backup.save/CVS

just because you have a local variable in your shell does not mean that
the cvs command wil lsee it.

Also, you will want to make sure that the repository is initialized:

  cvs -d /backups.save/CVS init

        -- Mark
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