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>H.4. Getting The Source Via <SPAN
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>CVSup</SPAN
></A
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>   Another alternative to using anonymous CVS for retrieving
   the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> source tree
   is <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
>.
   <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> was developed by
   John Polstra (<CODE
CLASS="EMAIL"
>&#60;<A
HREF="mailto:jdp@polstra.com"
>jdp@polstra.com</A
>&#62;</CODE
>) to
   distribute CVS repositories and other file trees for the
   <A
HREF="http://www.freebsd.org"
TARGET="_top"
>FreeBSD project</A
>.
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><A
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>H.4.1. Preparing A <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> Client System</A
></H2
><P
>    Two directory areas are required for <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
>
    to do its job: a local <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> repository
    (or simply a directory area if you are fetching a snapshot rather
    than a repository; see below)
    and a local <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> bookkeeping
    area. These can coexist in the same directory tree.
   </P
><P
>    Decide where you want to keep your local copy of the
    <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> repository. On one of our systems we
    recently set up a repository in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/home/cvs/</TT
>,
    but had formerly kept it under a
    <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> development tree in
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/opt/postgres/cvs/</TT
>. If you intend to keep your
    repository in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/home/cvs/</TT
>, then put:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>setenv CVSROOT /home/cvs</PRE
><P>

    in your <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>.cshrc</TT
> file, or a similar line in
    your <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>.bashrc</TT
> or
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>.profile</TT
> file, depending on your shell.
   </P
><P
>    The <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>cvs</SPAN
> repository area must be initialized.
    Once <TT
CLASS="ENVAR"
>CVSROOT</TT
> is set, then this can be done with a
    single command:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>cvs init</PRE
><P>

    after which you should see at least a directory named
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>CVSROOT</TT
> when listing the
    <TT
CLASS="ENVAR"
>CVSROOT</TT
> directory:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>$ ls $CVSROOT
CVSROOT/</PRE
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>H.4.2. Running a <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> Client</A
></H2
><P
>    Verify that
    <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>cvsup</SPAN
> is in your path; on most systems
    you can do this by typing:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>which cvsup</PRE
><P>

    Then, simply run
    <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>cvsup</SPAN
> using:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>cvsup -L 2 <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>postgres.cvsup</I
></TT
></PRE
><P>

    where <TT
CLASS="OPTION"
>-L 2</TT
> enables some status messages so you
    can monitor the progress of the update,
    and <TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>postgres.cvsup</I
></TT
> is
    the path and name you have given to your
    <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> configuration file.
   </P
><P
>    Here is a <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> configuration file
    modified for a specific installation, and which maintains a full
    local <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> repository:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
># This file represents the standard CVSup distribution file
# for the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> ORDBMS project
# Modified by lockhart@fourpalms.org 1997-08-28
# - Point to my local snapshot source tree
# - Pull the full CVS repository, not just the latest snapshot
#
# Defaults that apply to all the collections
*default host=cvsup.postgresql.org
*default compress
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix
# enable the following line to get the latest snapshot
#*default tag=.
# enable the following line to get whatever was specified above or by default
# at the date specified below
#*default date=97.08.29.00.00.00

# base directory where CVSup will store its 'bookmarks' file(s)
# will create subdirectory sup/
#*default base=/opt/postgres # /usr/local/pgsql
*default base=/home/cvs

# prefix directory where CVSup will store the actual distribution(s)
*default prefix=/home/cvs

# complete distribution, including all below
pgsql

# individual distributions vs 'the whole thing'
# pgsql-doc
# pgsql-perl5
# pgsql-src</PRE
><P>
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><P
>    If you specify <TT
CLASS="OPTION"
>repository</TT
> instead of <TT
CLASS="OPTION"
>pgsql</TT
>
    in the above setup, you will get a complete copy of the entire
    repository at cvsup.postgresql.org, including its
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>CVSROOT</TT
> directory. If you do that, you will
    probably want to exclude those files in that directory that you
    want to modify locally, using a refuse file. For example, for the
    above setup you might put this in
    <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/home/cvs/sup/repository/refuse</TT
>:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>CVSROOT/config*
CVSROOT/commitinfo*
CVSROOT/loginfo*</PRE
><P>
    See the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> manual pages for how to use refuse files.
   </P
><P
>    The following is a suggested <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVSup</SPAN
> configuration file from
    the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
>
    <A
HREF="ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/CVSup/README.cvsup"
TARGET="_top"
>    ftp site</A
>
    which will fetch the current snapshot only:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
># This file represents the standard CVSup distribution file
# for the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> ORDBMS project
#
# Defaults that apply to all the collections
*default host=cvsup.postgresql.org
*default compress
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix
*default tag=.

# base directory where CVSup will store its 'bookmarks' file(s)
*default base=<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>/usr/local/pgsql</I
></TT
>

# prefix directory where CVSup will store the actual distribution(s)
*default prefix=<TT
CLASS="REPLACEABLE"
><I
>/usr/local/pgsql</I
></TT
>

# complete distribution, including all below
pgsql

# individual distributions vs 'the whole thing'
# pgsql-doc
# pgsql-perl5
# pgsql-src</PRE
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