Quick question - what command gives cvs checkout revision?

[MBantz]

Just updating a package, and it needs a CVS checkout - but I'm not told the revision, what command does that? There are tons of versions for the files itself, but not for the checkout,

cheers
MBantz

[gseaman]

I typed 'info cvs' and got pages. I found that if you type 'info cvs common options' you will get a more specific result. cvs appears to be quite complicated. What package are you updating? Maybe the website will provide the appropriate command.

Galen

[MBantz]

Thank's Galen :-)

I typed 'cvs info' and got tons of info - just not what I needed. I'll fire up my VM and try the other way around :-) The lirc.org website says nothing about what revision it is or how to see it. When I check MythTv out, it always displays what revision it is - perhaps it is a part of the command for the co, I'll normally just paste the cvs instructions into my konsole...

I'm updating Lirc, the remote control software. It has been driving me nuts for three days now, and it turns out that -none- of the official tarballs work (with my test hardware an iMon Soundgraph VFD) - only the CVS... and I was looking, borking and trying -everything- (to the point of throwing the computer out the window ;-) .... all is fine now :-)

Now trying to figure out if PCLinux uses 'sysfs'. A udev rule is used and throws an error at boot every time. This setting has been active in the Lirc package forever and my guess is that it should be removed,

cheers
MBantz

EDIT: Ah, 'info' - like the man pages! Been digging in the manpages and the infopages without any luck yet

[travisN000]

Have you tried running cvs update from within the source directory?  ..if your starting from scratch, try this link:

http://www.lirc.org/cvs.html

[MBantz]

Yes, have tried cvs update as well, didn't give the information either