Installing speakup from CVS

[Darragh]

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From: Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:14:37 +0100
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: Installing speakup from CVS

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> Ok, let me see if I can help you out a bit. The .cvspass file should
> be an empty file in your home directory. To create it, you simply need
> to run the following:
> 
> touch $HOME/.cvspass
> 
> If you look at this file after having used cvs, you will see that it
> in fact isn't empty, but the checkout script and cvs it self as far as
> I know, needs an empty .cvspass file in the home directory to begin
> with. I know you said you already created a .cvspass file, but I want
> to make sure we're on the same page.
> 
> I have no idea what the absolute path problem is all about without
> seeing the actual message you get, but at a guess, make sure that you
> have a /usr/src/linux softlink pointing to your linux source tree,
> (I.E. after untaring the kernel source in /usr/src for example, using
> linux 2.6.13.4 as an example, do:
> 
> ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.13.4 /usr/src/linux
> 
> )
> 
> As for the password, Kirk says that if you want something, you should
> nicely ask for it, or something like that, so the password is
> 
> please
> 
> . Hth.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 03:52:43PM +0100, Darragh wrote:
> > Yes. You have picked  me up right. The CVS version was just downloaded and
> > archived.  I am now trying to patch the kernel with it but I'm running into
> > problems.
> > 
> > I do have access to a network connection which is letting me use CVS at the
> > moment however the script is not working.  I sent a message about it last
> > night. It gives me two errors:
> > 
> > 1. no .cvspass file found so I did some searching and created one:
> > 2.  It now says that the script has not passed an absolute pathname. And it
> > still thinks the password is wrong.
> > 
> > I would appreciate any help.
> > 
> > Darragh
> 
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Great. I'll try that again this evening when I have a better network connection.

Thanks again

Daragh