#eggies - Installing from CVS

.:: Installing from CVS

You need to have the cvs software installed on the linux box before you can update from CVS. You can get it from www.cvshome.org.

This is how you install eggdrop from CVS:

First we set the cvs root so the cvs program knows where to look:

tom@boo:/home/eggdrop/cvs > export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.eggheads.org:/usr/local/cvsroot
Then we login to the eggheads CVS. It'll ask for a password, just press enter. There is no password on the anonymous CVS.

tom@boo:/home/eggdrop/cvs > cvs login (Logging in to anonymous@cvs.eggheads.org) CVS password:
Let's download the actual files.. They'll be stored in the eggdrop1.6 subdirectory.

tom@boo:/home/eggdrop/cvs > cvs checkout eggdrop1.6
From now on you can go on just like you'd have just untarred the eggdrop archive.

If you'd like to update it again later, just follow almost exactly the same steps:

tom@boo:/home/eggdrop/cvs/eggdrop1.6 > export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.eggheads.org:/usr/local/cvsroot tom@boo:/home/eggdrop/cvs/eggdrop1.6 > cvs login (Logging in to anonymous@cvs.eggheads.org) CVS password: tom@boo:/home/eggdrop/cvs/eggdrop1.6 > cvs update
And the files will be updated to their latest versions. You'll need to recompile after that ofcourse.

.:: Problems?

If you run into something like this:

Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs@cvs.eggheads.org:2401/usr/local/cvsroot cvs login: warning: failed to open /home/tom/.cvspass for reading: No such file or directory

after running cvs login, you have to type this first:
tom@boo:/home/eggdrop/cvs/eggdrop1.6 > touch ~/.cvspass

Then retry cvs login.

This situation occurs when you've never used cvs before on this account.