CVS usage

[jporter1]

I've been trying to use CVS to update the alpha12 tarball I downloaded without any success.

I'm new to CVS so please forgive me if I'm missing something obvious here. Here's what I'm doing

Downloaded latest zabbix-1.1alpha12.tar.gz and untar'd it.
cvs -d: pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zabbix login
cvs -z3 -d: pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zabbix co -P zabbix

cvs diff will tell me all the files that do actually differ

cvs -z3 -d: pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zabbix up -P zabbix
&
cvs update -dP give the same error namely:

cvs update: move away filex ; it is in the way

Could someone PLEASE tell me how to create a 'sandbox'? That can be successfully updated or a command that will ignore the move away errors and just overwrite the existing files.

I have read the CVS how to and googled my a$$ off all day trying to sort this :confused:

Thanks

[jporter1]

:)

Not to worry - I was looking for the configure command in the directory when I first issued the cvs command that's why I thought I had to download the alpha12version first and then use cvs to update.

Anyway found the 'go' file which creates the configure file and I'm on my way..... only a few hours wasted today :o