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Re: Bug#1220: CVS postinst message rather verbose



William Gribble writes:
>From: Richard Kettlewell <richard@elmail.co.uk>
>> I had a look at /usr/doc/cvs/INSTALL.gz.  This tells you to create a
>> master repository; I assume this means that the software is useless
>> without one (BUT someone who actually knows CVS a bit might want to
>> correct me here). 
>
>It's a little trickier than that.  Yes, there has to be a repository 
>created before CVS works.  But where and how many repositories there
>are is very site-specific; that is to say, the software doesn't mandate
>a Single Repository, so many sites use personal or project-level
>repositories, and there may be no site-wide repository at all.

Aha.  That's the kind of thing I had in mind when I said someone might
want to correct me. ;-)

ttfn/rjk


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