CVS question

mtrivs · 2006-01-18 03:45:34

I have been fooling around with the enlightenment desktop environment ( http://www.enlightenment.org ) and i came across one of their "CVS mirrors". The site told me to use the command:

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@thinktux.net/root co e17

However i dont really know what this command does. I ran it and it seems to be updating....However, is this cvs server updating my version of enlightenment to the current version of enlightenment, or does this command do something else? Thanks in advance!

Edit: Here is a bit of output i get when i ran the command:

U e17/libs/ecore/data/images/crosshair.png
U e17/libs/ecore/data/images/e_logo.png
U e17/libs/ecore/data/images/evas_logo.png
U e17/libs/ecore/data/images/shadow.png
cvs checkout: Updating e17/libs/ecore/data/pointers
U e17/libs/ecore/data/pointers/.cvsignore
U e17/libs/ecore/data/pointers/Makefile.am
U e17/libs/ecore/data/pointers/mouse_pointer.png
cvs checkout: Updating e17/libs/ecore/debian
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/.cvsignore
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/changelog.in
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/control
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/copyright
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/ecore0-bin.install
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/libecore0-dev.install
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/libecore0.install
U e17/libs/ecore/debian/rules
cvs checkout: Updating e17/libs/ecore/doc
U e17/libs/ecore/doc/ecore.css
U e17/libs/ecore/doc/foot.html
U e17/libs/ecore/doc/head.html
cvs checkout: Updating e17/libs/ecore/doc/img
U e17/libs/ecore/doc/img/ecore.png

Also, if this is updating to the current CVS release, will i have to re-compile anything, or will it run with the updated version?

stonecrest · 2006-01-18 03:55:41

those are the very latest source code files for e17, you'd then have to compile it all. which, i'd wager, is NOT what you want to do. search around the forums, there is someone with a e17 repo that you can grab the binaries from.

mtrivs · 2006-01-18 08:10:21

Why wouldnt i want the latest source code? I just want the latest version of e17......isnt that what the cvs command did for me?

Also, if it would benefit me more, do you know the person who has the e17 repo and/or the server?

tomk · 2006-01-18 12:07:44

mtrivs wrote:

The site told me to use the command:
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@thinktux.net/root co e17
However i dont really know what this command does.

:shock: You're a fairly reckless guy, aren't you?! Would you not take the time to find out what it does - before running it?

Like the man said, you're getting the very latest source code, which needs to be compiled, and will then replace your existing e17 install.

mtrivs wrote:

Why wouldnt i want the latest source code?

I think stonecrest was making some assumptions about your experience in this area - quite understandable, given your "don't know what this does, let's do it anyway" approach.

mtrivs wrote:

Also, if it would benefit me more, do you know the person who has the e17 repo and/or the server?

Plenty of threads on this - do a search.

Dusty · 2006-01-18 16:43:32

By latest source code, they mean, the code might have been updated 20 minutes ago and they haven't tested it or anything so it is liable to break at any time.

One reason you'd rather use E17 binaries than compile yourself is that using the binaries is much easier than faster. They may not have been updated in the last 20 minutes, but the maintainers are pretty good at keeping it up. It may have been shadowhand that is maintaining E17 arch packages. Or maybe not, I don't remember -- search the forum as tomk says.

Dusty

Cerebral · 2006-01-18 16:56:03

Shadowhand used to, but I think he dropped 'em for xfce-svn...

mtrivs · 2006-01-18 17:16:12

Thanks for the replies guys...i will try and find that repo.....

mtrivs · 2006-01-18 17:18:36

I found this repo, but the description said they were CVS packages, would that be the same as what i was doing before?

Cerebral · 2006-01-18 17:23:02

mtrivs wrote:

I found this repo, but the description said they were CVS packages, would that be the same as what i was doing before?

It'd be similar. The cvs packages wouldn't be up-to-the-last-minute cvs checkouts, but whoever maintains the package would have gotten the source out of CVS at some specific time (usually at the date listed in the package version number, ie evince-cvs-20050601 or whatever) and compiled those.

These packages are usually better than compiling it yourself from CVS because many people have been using them and know they work well.

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