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Re: trying to build woody boot-floppies



On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:42:35AM -0700, sam@oddbox.org wrote:
> I DO seem to have an old version, even though I got this from
> a cvsroot of :pserver:anonymous@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot
> just last night. I have 2.3.0, and the version in sid is far, far
> newer. 
> 
> I thought I had a new version.. anyway, I just grabbed the aptable
> boot-floppies package from sid, and it seems to be building much
> better than 2.3.0 (that is, it's building the disks now, and hasn't
> bombed yet, plus it's taking a sizable chunk of cpu time, so i'll
> pipe up if it can't finish for some odd reason..)
> 
> I wonder why I got an old version from cvs?

It sounds like you have a branch checked out, rather than the
mainline.  You can check this by running

cvs status

and looking for sticky tags.  In any case, try a

cvs update -A

and see if that fixes the problem.

Matt



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