Re: CVS repository directory

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

Lyno Sullivan <lls@freedomain.org> writes:
> Last night when I was installing Slink it asked me to name the directory
> for my cvs repository.  I hunted all over debiag.org but found no guidance.
>  I did a Altavista web search and found no guidance.  I finally named
> /var/cvsroot.  What should I have said?

CVS is a source-code control system. If you're going to use it it
needs a directory where it's repository will reside. It isn't a
"Debian" thing, it's only needed if you're going to be using CVS for
your own projects.

For more information on what CVS is see:

http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html

and take a look at the "Documentation" link.

The short version is, you could tell it to put the repository anywhere
you like, although I'd probably prefer somewhere in /usr/local.

Gary