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>H.1. Getting The Source Via Anonymous <SPAN
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>CVS</SPAN
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>   If you would like to keep up with the current sources on a regular
   basis, you can fetch them from our <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> server
   and then use <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> to
   retrieve updates from time to time.
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>Anonymous CVS</B
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>     You will need a local copy of <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
>
     (Concurrent Version Control System), which you can get from
     <A
HREF="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/"
TARGET="_top"
>http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/</A
> (the official
     site with the latest version) or any GNU software archive site
     (often somewhat outdated). Many systems have a recent version of
     <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>cvs</SPAN
> installed by default.
    </P
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CLASS="STEP"
><P
>     Do an initial login to the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> server:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot login</PRE
><P>

     You will be prompted for a password; you can enter anything except
     an empty string.
    </P
><P
>     You should only need to do this once, since the password will be
     saved in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>.cvspass</TT
> in your home directory.
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>     Fetch the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> sources:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.postgresql.org:/projects/cvsroot co -P pgsql</PRE
><P>

     This installs the <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> sources into a
     subdirectory <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>pgsql</TT
>
     of the directory you are currently in.

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><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
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><B
>Note: </B
>       If you have a fast link to the Internet, you might not need
       <TT
CLASS="OPTION"
>-z3</TT
>, which instructs
       <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> to use <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>gzip</TT
> compression for transferred data.  But
       on a modem-speed link, it's a very substantial win.
      </P
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><P>
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><P
>     This initial checkout is a little slower than simply downloading
     a <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>tar.gz</TT
> file; expect it to take 40 minutes or so if you
     have a 28.8K modem.  The advantage of
     <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
>
     doesn't show up until you want to update the file set later on.
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>     Whenever you want to update to the latest <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> sources,
     <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>cd</TT
> into
     the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>pgsql</TT
> subdirectory, and issue:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>cvs -z3 update -d -P</PRE
><P>

     This will fetch only the changes since the last time you updated.
     You can update in just a couple of minutes, typically, even over
     a modem-speed line.
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><P
>     You can save yourself some typing by making a file <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>.cvsrc</TT
>
     in your home directory that contains:

</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>cvs -z3
update -d -P</PRE
><P>

     This supplies the <TT
CLASS="OPTION"
>-z3</TT
> option to all <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>cvs</TT
> commands, and the
     <TT
CLASS="OPTION"
>-d</TT
> and <TT
CLASS="OPTION"
>-P</TT
> options to <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>cvs update</TT
>.  Then you just have
     to say:
</P><PRE
CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING"
>cvs update</PRE
><P>

     to update your files.
    </P
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>   <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> can do a lot of other things, such
   as fetching prior revisions of the
   <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> sources rather than the
   latest development version.  For more info consult the manual that
   comes with <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
>, or see the online
   documentation at <A
HREF="http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/"
TARGET="_top"
>http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/</A
>.
  </P
><P
>   <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>CVS</SPAN
> has deficiencies.  For example,
   generating diffs that add or remove files requires write access to the
   CVS repository.  To work around that deficiency, use
   <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>cvsutils</SPAN
>, which is packaged in several
   operating systems, and is available in source form at <A
HREF="http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/"
TARGET="_top"
>http://www.red-bean.com/cvsutils/</A
>.
  </P
><P
>   Note that building <SPAN
CLASS="PRODUCTNAME"
>PostgreSQL</SPAN
> from a CVS
   pull requires reasonably up-to-date versions of <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>bison</SPAN
>
   and <SPAN
CLASS="APPLICATION"
>flex</SPAN
>, which are not needed to build from a distribution
   tarball because the files made with them are pre-built in a tarball.
   Otherwise the tool requirements are the same as building from source.
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