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+#!/bin/sh
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#   Copyright (c) 2004 Media Development Loan Fund
+#
+#   This file is part of the LiveSupport project.
+#   http://livesupport.campware.org/
+#   To report bugs, send an e-mail to bugs@campware.org
+#
+#   LiveSupport is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+#   (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#   LiveSupport is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#   GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#   along with LiveSupport; if not, write to the Free Software
+#   Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+#
+#
+#   Author   : $Author: fberckel $
+#   Version  : $Revision: 1.1 $
+#   Location : $Source: /home/paul/cvs2svn-livesupport/newcvsrepo/livesupport/bin/cvsCheckout.sh,v $
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# This script runs cvs to update the LiveSupport source code.
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+reldir=`dirname $0`/..
+basedir=`cd $reldir; pwd;`
+bindir=$basedir/bin
+docdir=$basedir/doc
+tmpdir=$basedir/tmp
+logdir=$basedir/tmp
+
+echo "";
+echo "The LiveSupport source code will be updated now. The update will be";
+echo "loged within cvs_checkout.log and printed to the console";
+echo "";
+
+cd $bindir/../..
+cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@netfinity-5.mdlf.org:/home/cvs checkout livesupport >& $logdir/cvs_checkout.log
+ls -l $logdir/cvs_checkout.log >> $logdir/cvs_checkout.log
+cat $logdir/cvs_checkout.log