Re: VCP::Source::cvs complains "Absolute module reference invalid:"

Dimitry --

Thanks for your reply. I tried to use SVK and it worked after some help from Chia Liang Kao. The problem indeed turned out to be the repository URL. The "correct" URL was something like: 

-d:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/sugarcrm:sugarcrm/...

, the / and ellipsis at the end being important. A bit peculiar (maybe because of the p4 ancestry of VCP :-) but it worked for me.

Cheers,
Alex


Dimitry Andric wrote on 11/07/2004 12:25 PM:

On 2004-11-03 at 21:15:19 Alex wrote:

  

I am trying to VCP from a CVS repo and getting this error message:
    

    cvs -Q -z9
    -d:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/sugarcrm checkout
    -r1.1 -p /sugarcrm/LICENSE returned 1 not 0
    stderr:
        cvs [checkout aborted]: Absolute module reference invalid:
    `/sugarcrm/LICENSE'
    

I've run into this too, although for a slightly other reason.  The
cause is probably an invalid CVSROOT, and in your case a colon is
missing between the hostname and the directory specification.

So you will need to change:

  CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net/cvsroot/sugarcrm

into

  CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous:@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/sugarcrm

In my case, I was using a local repository:

  CVSROOT=/home/cvs

which resulted in precisely the same error message.  It had to be
changed to:

  CVSROOT=:local:/home/cvs

Note that CVS itself accepts either syntax for local repositories, but
vcp apparently does not.