[gentoo-user] Re: Attic files (app-admin/rackview) removed?

[James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Jonathan Callen <jcallen <at> gentoo.org> writes:


> First, you must do the `cvs co` *without* the "-P" flag (check your
> ~/.cvsrc). You can bypass a ~/.cvsrc by passing "-f" to cvs, like so:

> CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous <at> anoncvs.gentoo.org:/var/cvsroot"
> cvs -f -d "$CVSROOT" co gentoo-x86/app-admin/rackview

> You can then cd into the directory in question
> (gentoo-x86/app-admin/rackview), and for each file that you want,
> determine the revision of the file just before it was removed (subtract
> 0.1 from the revision shown on the web view, or read the output of `cvs
> log`).

> You can then do `cvs up -r1.X file`, replacing "1.X" with the CVS
> revision and "file" with the filename in question.  

Ah!
OK.

I'll test this out.
post back only if 
it fails.

thx,
James
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